The Bible: In the Beginning... Page #3

All things will be new.

Raven!

And Noah sent forth a raven...

...to see if the waters were abated

from off the ground.

Go forth!

And the raven went forth,

and flew to and fro.

Even until the waters were

dried up from off the Earth.

And the raven returned not

again unto Noah anymore.

Also he sent forth a dove from him.

But the Earth was still seas...

...as it had been in the beginning,

before the dry land appeared.

She hath found no rest

for the sole of her foot.

For the waters are on the

face of the whole Earth.

Eat of the grain

and renew thy strength.

For in seven days I shall send

thee forth again.

And the dove came in to him

in the evening...

...and lo, in her mouth was

an olive leaf, plucked off.

Let us make a rudder and a sail.

For now we know that the waters are

abated from the Earth...

...and we can find land.

What sail shall discover the winds,

and what rudder find our course?

The breath of God

shall divide the waves...

...and his hand only

lead us into safety.

And the ark rested in the seventh

month, of the 17th day of the month...

...upon the mountains of Ararat.

And the Lord said in his heart:

"I will not again curse

the ground for man's sake.

While the Earth remaineth,

seed-time and harvest...

...cold and heat, summer

and winter, and day and night...

...shall not cease.

The waters shall no more become

a flood to destroy all flesh.

I do set my bow in the cloud.

And it shall be for a token

between me and the Earth.

It shall come to pass

when I bring a cloud...

...the bow shall

be seen in the cloud.

And I will remember my covenant

which is between me and you.

And every living

creature of all flesh. "

And sons were born unto the sons

of Noah after the flood.

And of them was the

whole Earth overspread.

And the whole Earth was of one

language and of one speech.

Now these are the generations

of the sons of Noah.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer...

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur...

And the sons of Ham: Mizraim, Phut,

Canaan and Cush.

And Cush begat Nimrod.

And Nimrod was a king.

And he set to build a tower

that would soar like his pride.

A tower that would reach unto Heaven.

And his people sang a song

as they built the tower:

"Who can bend the bow of Nimrod?

Or put strength into the arrow

like unto his strength?

Nothing is too mighty for him to do

No power is greater than his

He hath taken the Earth

and made it his own

He stores up the thunder and wears

the lightning like a jewel

The glory of Nimrod

shines beyond the sun

There is none greater

than he in Earth or Heaven. "

And the Lord came down

to see the tower...

...which the children

of men builded.

And He said,

"Behold, the people is one...

...and they have all one language.

And this they begin to do.

And now nothing will

be restrained from them...

...which they have imagined to do. "

My bow.

"Let us go down and confound

their language...

...that they may not understand

one another's speech. "

Stand your ground. Obey me!

Make good what has been brought down.

Am I not Nimrod?

And my voice is your commandment!

What words are these?

Babbling fool!

Madness is in his mouth!

You mock your king's tongue?

Shall a monkey gibber against me?

Therefore is the name of it

called Babel.

There the Lord confounded

their language...

...and scattered them abroad

upon the Earth.

The Lord waited 10 generations

for a man called Abram to be born.

He was born in Ur of the Chaldees.

And when he had come of an age,

the Lord said:

"Get out of thy city

and thy country...

...from thy kindred

and from thy father's house...

...unto a land that I will show thee.

I will make of thee a great nation...

...and I will bless thee

and make thy name great. "

So Abram departed, as the Lord

had spoken unto him...

...with Lot, his brother's son...

...and Sarai, his wife,

whom he loved...

...and all their substance

that they gathered...

...and the souls they had gotten...

...and they journeyed

like strangers on the Earth.

They journeyed not knowing

whither they went.

And yet the land lay before them

as the Lord had promised.

And the mornings and the evenings

pointed the way.

Come! Come!

The hills revealed it.

Lift up now thine eyes...

...and look from the place

where thou art...

...northward and southward...

...and eastward and westward...

...for all the land

which thou seest...

...to thee will I give it...

...and to thy seed forever.

Shall we indeed inherit

this country in peace?

For the Canaanites go about the land.

The understanding of God...

...is not our understanding.

And what shall be brought about

and how it is perfected...

...is not in our power to know.

Only in the promise

of what shall come...

...can we prosper.

And in that trust...

...have we pitched our tents.

Wife.

Abram.

My husband.

The sun has gone down.

We have labored until evening.

I bring my love beside you

in the tent...

...as day answereth day.

Let my beloved come into his garden

and eat his pleasant fruits.

Behold.

Thou art fair, my love.

Behold, thou art fair.

I have drawn away from my beauty

as from a stranger...

...for the years have gone with

the going down of the sun.

Your beauty stands in a sanctuary.

The enemy falters in the street...

...and sheathes his sword

in the marketplace.

Time...

...cannot pass the door.

The strong lock of the door is love...

...and the key...

...is in my hand.

As the apple tree among

the trees of the wood...

...so is my beloved among the sons.

His left hand is under my head...

...and his right hand doth embrace me.

My right arm covers you...

...as the night covers the day.

But Sarai, his wife, was barren...

...and she had no child.

Yet was the land before them

as God had promised.

And they pitched their tents

in the length and breadth of it...

...from Bethel to Kadesh and Shur,

even unto Egypt.

With Sarai came also her handmaid...

...Hagar, the Egyptian.

They learned the wells

and fertile places...

Five score.

...and Abram prospered.

Six score.

Seven score.

And when they came again

unto Bethel...

...there was division between

the herdsmen of Abram's cattle...

...and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle.

Let there be no strife

between thee and me.

And between thy herdsmen

and my herdsmen, for we are brethren.

Our substance is too great

for us to dwell together.

The land is not able

to bear us together.

Is not the whole land before thee?

Separate thyself,

I pray thee, from me.

If thou will go left,

I will go to the right...

...or if thou go right,

I will go to the left.

There below us is the plain of Jordan.

And that way I will go.

Toward the cities of the plain.

The men of the cities are wicked,

and sinners before the Lord.

From here the walls of Sodom and

Gomorrah are white.

But within the walls...

...is the darkness of men.

Many tribes and their kings try

to claim their domination...

...and the city walls are refuge

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