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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

Genesis

50 chapters

Chapters

Genesis 1

In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Genesis 2

So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.

Genesis 3

Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

Genesis 4

And Adam knew Eve his wife: who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.

Genesis 5

This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 6

And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 7

And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

Genesis 8

And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.

Genesis 9

And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 10

These are the generations of the sons of Noe: Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the flood.

Genesis 11

And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.

Genesis 12

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Genesis 13

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

Genesis 14

And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor king of the Elamites, and Thadal king of nations,

Genesis 15

Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

Genesis 16

Now Sarai the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children; but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,

Genesis 17

And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Genesis 18

And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.

Genesis 19

And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground,

Genesis 20

Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

Genesis 21

And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

Genesis 22

After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

Genesis 23

And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.

Genesis 24

Now Abraham was old; and advanced in age: and the Lord had blessed him in all things.

Genesis 25

And Abraham married another wife, named Cetura:

Genesis 26

And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.

Genesis 27

Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

Genesis 28

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:

Genesis 29

Then Jacob went on in his journey, and came into the east country.

Genesis 30

And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

Genesis 31

But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s, and being enriched by his substance is become great:

Genesis 32

Jacob also went on the journey he had begun: and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 33

And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia, and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids:

Genesis 34

And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.

Genesis 35

In the meantime God said to Jacob: Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to thee when thou didst flee from Esau thy brother.

Genesis 36

And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.

Genesis 37

And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.

Genesis 38

At that time Juda went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Odollamite, named Hiras.

Genesis 39

And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.

Genesis 40

After this, it came to pass, that two eunuchs, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, offended their lord.

Genesis 41

After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

Genesis 42

And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?

Genesis 43

In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 44

And Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying: Fill their sacks with corn, as much as they can hold: and put the money of every one in the top of his sack.

Genesis 45

Joseph could no longer refrain himself before many that stood by: whereupon he commanded that all should go out, and no stranger be present at their knowing one another.

Genesis 46

And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

Genesis 47

Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen.

Genesis 48

After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick: and he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.

Genesis 49

And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.

Genesis 50

And when Joseph saw this, he fell upon his father’s face weeping and kissing him.