tween thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed it fhall bruife thy head and thou fhalt bruife. his heel.

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9....Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy forrow. And unto Adamn be faid, Because thou haft hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and haft eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, faying, Thou fhalt not eat of it, curfed is the ground for thy fake: in forrow fhalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. In the fweat of thy face fhalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it waft thou taken; fer duft thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

10....Therefore the Lord God fent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence be was taken. So he drove out the man and be placed at the east end of the garden of Eden, Cherubim and a flaming fword, which turned every way, to keep the tree. of life, left the man fhould eat thereof and live forever.

11....And Adam and Eve had two fons, Cain and Abel Abel was a keeper of theep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in procefs of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel alfo brought of the firftlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.

12....And the Lord had refpect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and to his offering he had not reípect. And Cain was very wroth and his countemance fell. And the Lord faid unto Cain, why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? if thou doeft well fhalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doeft not well, fin lieth at the door.

13....And Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pafs, when they were in the field, that Cain

rofe up against Abel his brother, and flew him." And the Lord faid unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he faid, I know not: am I my brother's keeper ? And he said, What haft thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

14....And now thou art curfed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hands. When thou left the ground, it fhald not henceforth yield unto thee her ftrength. A fugi. tive and a vagabond fhalt thou be in the earth.

15....And Cain faid unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou haft driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face fhall I be hid and I fhall be a fugitive and a vag. abond in the earth; and it fhall come to pafs, that every one that findeth me fhall flay me.

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The horrors of a guilty confcience are not defcribed more forcibly even by Shakefpeare himfelf, than in the foregoing expreffions of defpairing Cain. We behold the wretch quaking with horror, a terror to himself and to all round about him. But here the queftion occurs, How could Cain be afraid of violence from the hands of men, feeing it does not appear that any man exifted at that time, excepting himself and Adam his father? To this queftion the following aufwer is taken from Dr. Hunter's facred biography.

"The birth of Seth is fixed, by the facred hiftory, in

"It is melancholy to observe [says Dr. Hunter] that the first quarrel in the world, the first human blood that was shed, were occasioned by religion, which was designed by God to be, and really is in itself, the dearest bond of union among men." This awful instance, while it plainly shows that the best things may some imes be perverted to the worst of purposes, is a solemn warning to the children of men, to avoid all bitterness and wrath in their religie disputes.

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the one hundred and thirtieth year of Adam: therefore reasonable to place the death of Abel two years earlier, or near it; that is in the one hundred and twenty-eighth year of the world. Now though we fhould fuppofe (which is by no means certain) that Addam and Eve had no other sons, in the year of the world one hundred and twenty eight, but Cain and Abel, it must be allowed that they had daughters, who might early marry with their two fous. And no more than the defcendants of these two are requifite to make a confiderable number of men upon the earth, in the faid year one hundred and twenty-eight.

"For fuppofing them (Cain and Abel) to have been married in the nineteenth year of the world, they might have had each of them eight children in the twenty-fifth year. In twenty five years more, the fittieth of the world, their defcendants, in a direct line, would be xty-four perfons In the feventy-fifth year, at the same rate, they would amount to five hundred and twelve. In the one hundi dth year, to four thoufand and ninety-fix. In the one hundred and twentyfifth year, to thirty-two thousand seven hundred and fixty-eight."

CHAPTER III.

THE FLOOD.

A. M. or year of the World, 1656.

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THE earth was corrupt before God; and

the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all. Beth had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God

} faw that the wickednefs of man was great upon the earth, and that every immagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

2....And the Lord faid, My fpirit fhall not always ftrive with man, for that he alfo is flesh. And God faid unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them: behold I will deftroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth.-Make thee an ark of Gopher wood; rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and pitch it within and without with pitch.

8....And, behold I, even I, do bring a flood of wa ters upon the earth, to deftroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven. But with thee will I establish my covenant and thou fhalt come into the ark; thou and thy fons, and thy wife, and thy logs wives with thee.

4....And the Lord faid unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I feen righte ous before me in this generation. For yet feven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living fubftance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

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5....And Noah went in, and his fons, and his wife, and his fons' wives with him, (in the whole,eight fouls) into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. clean beafls, and of beafts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. And the Lord fhut him in.

6....And it came to país, after feven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the fixth hundredth year of Noah's life, in the fecond month,

the feventeenth day of the month, (anfwering to the 7th day of December) the fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven opened.

7....And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights and the waters increased and bare up the ark. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the

earth and all the hills that were under the whole hea. ven were covered.-Fifteen cubits upwards did the wa, ters prevail; and all flefh died that moved upon the earth; all in whofe noftrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land died. And Noah only remained alive and they that were with him in the ark.

8...And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah and every living thing that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pafs over the earth, and the wa ters affuaged. The fountains alfo of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

9...And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and the ark refted in the feventh month, on the leventeenth day of the month, (or the fixth of May) on the mountains of Ararat, fin Armenia.) And it came to pafs that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. And he fent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from the face of the earth.

10... Alfo he fent forth a dove from him, to fee if the waters, were abated from off the face of the ground. But the dove found no relt for the fole of her foot, and fhe returned unto him into the ark. And he ftayed yet other feven days, and again he fent forth the dove out of the ark. And the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off.