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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God had made. He said to the woman, &#8220;Did God really say, &#8216;You must not eat from any tree in the garden&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The woman said to the serpent, &#8220;We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but God did say, &#8216;You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;You will not certainly die,&#8221; the serpent said to the woman. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God among the trees of the garden. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God called to the man, &#8220;Where are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The man said, &#8220;The woman you put here with me&#8212;she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said to the woman, &#8220;What is this you have done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">The woman said, &#8220;The serpent deceived me, and I ate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said to the serpent, &#8220;Because you have done this,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed are you above all livestock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">and all wild animals!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">You will crawl on your belly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">and you will eat dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">all the days of your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And I will put enmity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">between you and the woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and between your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> and hers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">he will crush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">strike</span></span></span><span class="content"> your head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">and you will strike his heel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To the woman he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">with painful labor you will give birth to children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">Your desire will be for your husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">and he will rule over you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">To Adam he said, &#8220;Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, &#8216;You must not eat from it,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is the ground because of you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">through painful toil you will eat food from it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">all the days of your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It will produce thorns and thistles for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="content">and you will eat the plants of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">By the sweat of your brow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">you will eat your food</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">until you return to the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">since from it you were taken;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">for dust you are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">and to dust you will return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Adam</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The man</span></span></span><span class="content"> named his wife Eve,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="fq">Eve </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">living.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because she would become the mother of all the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said, &#8220;The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">placed in front</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cain and Abel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Adam</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The man</span></span></span><span class="content"> made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="fq">Cain </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">brought forth </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">acquired.</span></span></span><span class="content"> She said, &#8220;With the help of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> I have brought forth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">have acquired</span></span></span><span class="content"> a man.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.4.2"><span class="content">Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And Abel also brought an offering&#8212;fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looked with favor on Abel and his offering, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Cain, &#8220;Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now Cain said to his brother Abel, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go out to the field.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out to the field.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Cain, &#8220;Where is your brother Abel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.4.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;Am I my brother&#8217;s keeper?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;What have you done? Listen! Your brother&#8217;s blood cries out to me from the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother&#8217;s blood from your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Cain said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;My punishment is more than I can bear. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Not so</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Very well</span></span></span><span class="content">; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.&#8221; Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Cain went out from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s presence and lived in the land of Nod,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:16 </span><span class="fq">Nod </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">wandering </span><span class="ft">(see verses 12 and 14).</span></span></span><span class="content"> east of Eden.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His brother&#8217;s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who instructed all who work in</span></span></span><span class="content"> bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain&#8217;s sister was Naamah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Lamech said to his wives,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Adah and Zillah, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">wives of Lamech, hear my words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">I have killed a man for wounding me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">a young man for injuring me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">If Cain is avenged seven times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.4.24"><span class="content">then Lamech seventy-seven times.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.4.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:25 </span><span class="fq">Seth </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">granted</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.4.26"><span class="content">At that time people began to call on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to proclaim</span></span></span><span class="content"> the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">From Adam to Noah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the written account of Adam&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.5.1"><span class="content">When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them &#8220;Mankind&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">adam</span></span></span><span class="content"> when they were created.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="fq">Father </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">ancestor</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7-26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Enosh. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He named him Noah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:29 </span><span class="fq">Noah </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">comfort</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has cursed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.5.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;May the day of my birth perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">and the night that said, &#8216;A boy is conceived!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That day&#8212;may it turn to darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may God above not care about it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may no light shine on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may a cloud settle over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may blackness overwhelm it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That night&#8212;may thick darkness seize it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">may it not be included among the days of the year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">nor be entered in any of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May that night be barren;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">may no shout of joy be heard in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May those who curse days</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">curse the sea</span></span></span><span class="content"> curse that day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May its morning stars become dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">may it wait for daylight in vain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">and not see the first rays of dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">to hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not perish at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">and die as I came from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why were there knees to receive me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">and breasts that I might be nursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would be lying down in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would be asleep and at rest</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with kings and rulers of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">with princes who had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">who filled their houses with silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">like an infant who never saw the light of day?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease from turmoil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">and there the weary are at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Captives also enjoy their ease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">they no longer hear the slave driver&#8217;s shout.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and the great are there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">and the slaves are freed from their owners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why is light given to those in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">and life to the bitter of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to those who long for death that does not come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">who search for it more than for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who are filled with gladness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">and rejoice when they reach the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Why is life given to a man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whose way is hidden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whom God has hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For sighing has become my daily food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">my groans pour out like water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">What I feared has come upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">what I dreaded has happened to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I have no peace, no quietness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">I have no rest, but only turmoil.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">But who can keep from speaking?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Think how you have instructed many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">how you have strengthened feeble hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your words have supported those who stumbled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">you have strengthened faltering knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">it strikes you, and you are dismayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Should not your piety be your confidence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">and your blameless ways your hope?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">Where were the upright ever destroyed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As I have observed, those who plow evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">and those who sow trouble reap it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">At the breath of God they perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">at the blast of his anger they are no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The lions may roar and growl,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lion perishes for lack of prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A word was secretly brought to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">my ears caught a whisper of it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Amid disquieting dreams in the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">when deep sleep falls on people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">fear and trembling seized me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">and made all my bones shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A spirit glided past my face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">and the hair on my body stood on end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It stopped,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">but I could not tell what it was.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">A form stood before my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">and I heard a hushed voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;Can a mortal be more righteous than God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">if he charges his angels with error,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">how much more those who live in houses of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">whose foundations are in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">who are crushed more readily than a moth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">unnoticed, they perish forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="content">so that they die without wisdom?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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