The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh:
And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:
And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:
And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:
And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:
And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:
And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:
And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son:
And when noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
And canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.
Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.
And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.
Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.
And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?
But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;
And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.
And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day.
And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.
Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.
And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.
Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.
And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;
The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.
And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.
Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.
And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
And when esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.
And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:
And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son:
And Jacob said, I am Esau, your oldest son; I have done as you said: come now, be seated and take of my meat, so that you may give me a blessing.
And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your oldest son, Esau.
Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
And Laban said, In our country we do not let the younger daughter be married before the older.
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.
And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.
Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.
These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.
Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.
And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;
Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?
And they were all given their seats before him in order of birth, from the oldest to the youngest: so that they were looking at one another in wonder.
See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?
And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.
And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.
And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;
And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?
Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.
And Israel, stretching out his right hand, put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands on purpose, for Manasseh was the older.
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.
Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:
Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?
Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.
And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.
So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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