The Unity of the Book of Genesis Author:William Henry Green Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CRITICAL PARTITION OF GEN. VI. 5-IX. 17. The Prophetic Narrator, J, in Italic. The Priestly Writer, P, in Roman. The Redactor in Brackets. VI. 5. And ... more »the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 1. And the LORD said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground [both man and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaveri] ; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9. THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OP NOAH: Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. 10. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11. And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12. And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15. And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16. A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thouset in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17. And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of-life, from under heaven; every th...« less