Giants on .aich. GENE S I S VI. ntme. and forme thereof) is commanded to be made, 18, fòr the faring of Nees bonfe ,. 19, andfime Of all living things ; 21 with primifion of field. 22, Noe dotb all that God commanded. Nd it was when men began to mul- tiply on the face 6f tjie earth : and daughters were borne unto thetas. 2 That the formes of God law the daughters of men, that they were faire : and they Cooke unto them wives ,of all which they choie. 3 And Jehovah laid ; My fpirit (hall not ((rive with map, for ever ; for that heallo is flefh : and 'his dates (hall be an hundred and twen- 4 tie yeeres. There were Giants in the earth, in thole daies 3 and allo after that, when the lonnes of God went -in unto the daughters of inen;andthey bare children tö them: they were mighty men ; which Were of Old, men of name. 5 And Jehovah faw, that the wickedtieffe of man rims much in the earth ; and every ima- lgination of the .thoughts of his heart , was 6 only evil! every day. And it repented Jeho- vah,that he had mademan on the earth : and it grieved him at his heart. And Jehovah laid; I wi!1 blot -out man,whom I have crea- ted, from the face of the earth; from man unto beaft, unto the creeping-thing, and un. to the fowle of the heavens; for it repenteth 8 me that I have made them. But Noe found grace in the eyes of Jehovah. 9 THESE are THE GENERATIONS OF Nos ; Noe was a juft man, perfi t in his to generations: Noe walked with Gad. And Noe begat three lònnes : Sem , Ch: m , and 1 r J tpheth. And the earth was corrupt before God : and the earth was filled with violent - t a wrong. And God faw the earth and loe it was corrupt : for all fle(h had corrupted his way upon the. earth. 13 And God faid unto Noe ; An end of all defh is come before me ; for the earth is fil- led with violent wrong , from the face of them : and behold I deftroy them with the 14 earth. Make for thee an Arke cf Gopher trees; netts (halt thou make in the Arke: and (halt pitch it within and without with 15 pitch. And this(the fajlion) which thou fhalt make it of: three hundred cubits the length ofthe Arke ; fifty cubits the bredch of it; 16 and thirty cubits the height of it. A cleare- light flialt thou make to the Arke ; and in a cubit (hail thou firifli it from above; acid the doofe of the. Arke (halt thou let in the fide N oes Arke. 2 thereof: withlower,fecond and thirdflories (halt thou make it. And I, behold I doe 17 bring the Flood of waters upon the earth ; to defiroy all Herb, which bath in it the (pi- rit of life ; from under the heavens : every- :, thin that is in the earth , (hall give-up the ghof. But I willltablifh my covenant with thee:, and thou (halt enter into the Arke; thou, and thy fonnes, and thy wife, and thy fonnes wives, with thee. And of every Ii- 19 viag thing,of alldlefh,two ofevery fort,fhait thoubring into the Arke, to keep alive with thee: they fhall bemale and female. Of the 20 fowle, after his kinde;and of the beaft, after his kinde ; of every creeping thing of the earth, after his kind : two of every f rt,fhall come unto thee, to keepe (them) alive. And take thou unto thee, of all meat, that is eaten ; and thou fha!t gather it tothee : and it (hall be for thee , and for them, for mean. And Noe did : according to all that God 22 commanded him, fo did he. 18 21 Annotations t A En:] Hebr: Adam : put generally for men,as 1V1 the Greeke tranflateth, and the laftwords of this verle doe confirme t fo the Chaldee faith, the fonnes of man. The pofterity of Kain is hereby meant, who intreafed fatter thenSeths did : and fought fo to doe,by taking nine wives,Gen.4.19. Verf.2. Cho font of God:] the men of the Church of God; for unto fuch, Mofes faith,ye are the fans of lehovah your God, Deut. r 4. r. fo r Joh. 3.1. The name God, in Hebrew .Ælohim, is in the forme ,plural I, and fometime Princes are fo named, Exo. 21.6. Pfal.82. fo the Chaldee here tranflateth, the pines of Princes: underftanding (as I thinke) Seth,and the other Patriarchs. daughters ofm,n: meaning of Kains pófteritie, that were out of Gods Church, Gen. 4.14. and becaufe they were notborne againd of God, by the immortall feed of hisword,(r Joh.3.9,10.1 Pet.I.23.)they con - tinued children of the old Adam; and natural! man dill. So Paul faith, I Cor. 3.3. wallgye not ai men? that is, unregenerate men. faire:] or good- ly : Hebr. good, to weet, of countenance, as is eitpref- fed,Gen. 24.16. the Chaldee tranllateth it, faire. took unto them : ] that is, took to themlelaeo, and regarded not the counfell of their godly parents, (who íhonld by right take wives for their chil- dren) nor the will of God whole law after for- bade fùch prophane marriages, Deat7.3,4. The l ik© is noted of Ef eu, G n.26. 34,3 5. and 28.8,9. Thus corruption grew in families. which they ehofee:] that is, which they loved andliked, following their owne affeetions. So, my ehoffn, EfaY 42.1. is interpreted, my beloved, Match. 12. 18. and choofing is often u fed for liking or delighting, Pfálm. 25. 1 2. and 119. 173. Efay 1.29: and fo the Chaldee D 3 trantla- 1
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