(i. e. Berafbith)

BEING

The First Book of MOSES,

CALLED

GENESIS.

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SECT. I. S

SHE Gods in the Summit, or the Supreme Gods,

made the Names* and the Earth; but the Earth was not as yet reduced to a proper Form, was empty, and Darkness overfpread the Abyss. Then a Wind from the Gods moved upon the Surface of the Waters: And the Gods faid, Let Light be,

*That by the Names here are to be understood, the Planets, fixed Stars, &c. appears from several After-paffages in Scripture, as fhall be fully made out in the Course of this Work

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and

and Light was; who alfo, knowing the Light to be good, feparated betwixt it and Darknefs, giving to Light the Name of Day, and to Darkness that of Night; whereby the Evening and the Morning became the first Day.

SECT. II. 5

Now the Gods faid,. let there be a folid Expanfe or Interftice in the Middle of the Waters, fo as to divide the Waters from the Waters; and they made this folid Interftice, whereby the Waters under it might be divided from those above it. This anfwered the defigned End, and the Gods called it the Expanfe* of the Names; still the Evening and the Morning make another Day.

SECT. III. 5

The Gods also faid, Let the Waters of the Names be conveyed below, or under Ground, into one Place, that dry Land may be feen, and it was fo done; and the Gods called the dry Land Earth; but the Gathering of the Waters they called Sea; all which the Gods faw to be good. Then the Gods faid, Let the Earth bring forth Vegetables bearing Seed, the Fruit-trees

*This is properly enough called the Expanfe of the Names, becaufe common to every Name as well as to the Earth.

producing

producing Fruit, each after his Kind, with Seed within it: This alfo the Gods faw to be good; and the Evening and the Morn ing were the third Day.

SECT. IV. D

And the Gods faid, Let there be Illuminations in an Expanfe of the Names (that Day and Night may thereby be divided, and there may be Signs, appointed Times, and Days, and Years) adapted fo as to give Light on Earth: So they formed two great Lights, the greater of which was to prevail by Day, and the lefs by Night along with the Stars, and appointed thefe ruling Names to give Light abroad on Earth, and to govern by Night and Day, and parcel out the Light and Darkness: The Gods faw this to be good; thus the Evening and the Morning was the fourth Day. And the Gods faid, Let there be Fishes to fwim in Waters, having a living Spirit, and Fowls to fly upon the Earth over the Face of the Expanfe of Names. Then they formed the greatWhales, and every living Spirit that creepeth, which fwim in the Waters, and every Fowl after his Kind; and faw all this to be good. The Gods now blefs them, faying, Be fruitful, encrease, and replenish the Waters with Fishes, and let the Fowls grow numerous upon the Earth: The Evening and Morning compleat the fifth Day,

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SECT. V. D

And the Gods faid, Let a living Spirit, according to proper Degree, be fent forth upon the Earth for walking Beafts and Reptiles, and let them live according to their respective Stations; which was accordingly done; the Gods made each living Creature of the Earth in due Degree, the walking Beaft according to his Nature, and the Reptile according to his; and faw that they all were good. And the Gods faid, Let us make Man by our Image, our own very Likeness, that they may rule the Fishes of the Sea, the Fowls of the Names, and Beafts, and over all the Earth, and over every Reptile that creepeth upon the Face of the Earth. Thus the Gods made Adam by his Image, by the Image of the Gods made he them Male and Female. Gods now blefs them, and faid unto them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth, and govern the Fishes of the Sea, the Fowls of the Names, and every living Reptile which creepeth upon the Earth. The Gods further faid, thefe Things I give to you, viz. every Vegetable bearing Seed upon the Earth, and every Tree whofe Fruit is in it, with its Seed, that they may ferve you for Food, and every Creature of the Earth, and every Fowl of the Names, and every

The

Reptile

Reptile upon the Earth, in which is a living Spirit, or whatever feeds upon Grass; and it was fo. The Gods then faw that every thing, which they had made, was very good: And the Evening and the Morning was the fixth Day.

Now

CHA P. II.

SECT. VI. D

OW the Names, and the Earth, and all the Multitudes in them, were brought to Perfection; the Gods having by the seventh Day finished the Plan he had made; upon which Day he ceased from the already perfected Work: So the Gods bleffed the feventh Day, and declared it holy, because upon it he ceafed from the Şcheme which he had formed to compleat.

SECT. VII.

Thefe are the Accounts of the Names, and of the Earth, when they were formed in the Day that Jehovah the Gods made the Earth, and the Names, and every Plant of the Field before it appeared from the Earth, and all the Grafs before it grew, altho' Jehovah the Gods had yet caufed no Rain upon the Earth, neither yet was Adam

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