KJV Bible MWP Genesis 8:1 - 11:32

GENESIS Chapters 8 - 11 KJV Bible (1769 Edition) Modern Words Paraphrase (MWP) Copyright (c) 2007 David A. Wagner.

Genesis Chapter 8

(8:1) 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 subsided; (8:2) The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; (8:3) And the waters returned from off the earth continually: And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. (8:4) And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. (8:5) 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.

(8:6) And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made: (8:7) And he sent forth a raven, which went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. (8:8) Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground; (8:9) But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark. (8:10) And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; (8:11) And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, look, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. (8:12) And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; that returned not again to him anymore.

(8:13) 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, see, the surface of the ground was dry. (8:14) And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. (8:15) And God spoke to Noah, saying, (8:16) “Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. (8:17) Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.” (8:18) And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: (8:19) Every animal, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatever creeps upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

(8:20) And Noah built an altar to the Lord; and took of every clean animal, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (8:21) And the Lord smelled a sweet smell; and the Lord said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again strike anymore everything living, as I have done. (8:22) While the earth remains, planting and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."

Genesis Chapter 9

(9:1) And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. (9:2) And the fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every animal of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. (9:3) Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. (9:4) But flesh with the life inside, which is the blood of the flesh, will you not eat. (9:5) And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. (9:6) Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. (9:7) And you, be you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”

(9:8) And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, (9:9) “And I, see, I establish my covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; (9:10) And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every animal of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every animal of the earth. (9:11) And I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all life be destroyed anymore by the waters of a flood; neither will there anymore be a submersion to destroy the earth. (9:12) And God said, This is the token of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: (9:13) I do set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. (9:14) And it will come to pass, when I bring a clouds over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the clouds: (9:15) And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all species; and the waters will no more become a submersion to destroy all life. (9:16) And the rainbow will be in the clouds; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all species that are upon the earth.” (9:17) And God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all life that is upon the earth.”

(9:18) And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: And Ham is the father of Canaan. (9:19) These are the three sons of Noah: And of them was the whole earth overspread.

(9:20) And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: (9:21) And he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was exposed within his tent. (9:22) And Ham, the father of Canaan, watched the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. (9:23) And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. (9:24) And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. (9:25) And he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.” (9:26) And he said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan will be his servant. (9:27) God will enlarge Japheth, and he will dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan will be his servant. (9:28) And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. (9:29) And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: And he died.

Genesis Chapter 10

(10:1) Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.

(10:2) The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. (10:3) And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. (10:4) And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. (10:5) By these were the isles of the maritime peoples divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

(10:6) And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan. (10:7) And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. (10:8) And Cush fathered Nimrod: He began to be a mighty one in the earth. (10:9) He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: Therefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. (10:10) And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (10:11) Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, (10:12) And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: The same is a great city. (10:13) And Mizraim fathered Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, (10:14) And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphtorim.

(10:15) And Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, (10:16) And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, (10:17) And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, (10:18) And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. (10:19) And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you come to Gerar, to Gaza; as you go, to Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even to Lasha. (10:20) These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their countries, and in their nations.

(10:21) To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. (10:22) The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. (10:23) And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. (10:24) And Arphaxad fathered Salah; and Salah fathered Eber. (10:25) And to Eber were born two sons: The name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. (10:26) And Joktan fathered Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, (10:27) And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, (10:28) And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, (10:29) And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. (10:30) And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar a mount of the east. (10:31) These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

(10:32) These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: And by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis Chapter 11

(11:1) And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. (11:2) And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. (11:3) And they said one to another, “Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire.” And they had brick for stone, and tar had they for mortar.” (11:4) And they said, “Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make ourselves famous, otherwise we will be scattered abroad upon the surface of the whole earth.” (11:5) And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. (11:6) And the Lord said, “See, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: And now nothing will be impossible for them, which they have imagined to do.” (11:7) “Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (11:8) So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the surface of all the earth: and they ceased to build the city. (11:9) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confuse the language of all the earth: And from there did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the surface of all the earth.

(11:10) These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and fathered Arphaxad two years after the flood: (11:11) And Shem lived after he fathered Arphaxad five hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:12) And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and fathered Salah: (11:13) And Arphaxad lived after he fathered Salah four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:14) And Salah lived thirty years, and fathered Eber: (11:15) And Salah lived after he fathered Eber four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:16) And Eber lived four and thirty years, and fathered Peleg: (11:17) And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:18) And Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu: (11:19) And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:20) And Reu lived two and thirty years, and fathered Serug: (11:21) And Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:22) And Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor: (11:23) And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:24) And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and fathered Terah: (11:25) And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and fathered sons and daughters. (11:26) And Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

(11:27) Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. (11:28) And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. (11:29) And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. (11:30) But Sarai was sterile; she had no child.

(11:31) And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there. (11:32) And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.