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These were the generations of Shem: And Shem begat Arphaxad two years after the flood; and Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad to bring forth many sons and daughters.
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And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Arphaxad begat other sons and daughters.
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And Salah begat Eber; and after he begat Eber he begat other sons and daughters.
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And Eber begat Peleg; and after he begat Peleg he begat other sons and daughters.
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And Peleg begat Reu and he begat other sons and daughters.
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And Reu begat Serug; and after he begat Serug he begat many sons and daughters.
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And Serug begat Nahor and other sons and daughters.
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And Nahor begat Teraha; and after he begat Terah he begat other sons and daughters.
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And Terah begat Abrama, Nahor, and Haran.
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And now these were the generations of Terah: Terah begat Haran, Nahor, and Abram; and Haran begat Lota.
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And Nahor and Abram took them wives;
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And the name of the wife of Nahor was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah;
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And the name of the wife of Abram was Saraia, but Sarai was barren, and she bare no child.
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Now Terah was an idolatera and he did make idols with his hands and did sell them as they traveled;
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But Abram remembered YHVH Elohima that did save his forefathers from the flood, and desired to serve YHVHb alone.
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¶ And it came to pass that there was a famine in the land, and Haran died before his father, Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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And it came to pass that Terah did speak unto Abram saying: When thou shall see death come upon me what shall thou worship after I am gone?
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And Abram replied, saying: We shall worship YHVH Elohim, the Elohima of our fathers, for YHVH is our Elohim, and we devote ourselves to Him.
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¶ And it came to pass that Abram would not bow before the elohima that his father made, nor would he bow to the kings of the earth, for he saw these as works of the Creator and unworthy of worship.
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And Terah was angry and said unto Abram: What of these elohim that have blessed us?
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And Abram answered him saying: These elohim have not blessed us, but we have blessed them! For these are thy creation, and the wealth they grant us is not for our labors nor for their love of us.
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Behold, thy idols of wood, that they do burn and protect themselves not; fire may burn these, yet we may subdue the fire;
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And they that thou hast cut from stone, these sink to the bottoms of the waters and can not save themselves; yet we may cut into the earth and change the very course of the waters; therefore are we not greater than thy elohim?
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Yea, and I will not call these YHVH, for the fire and the waters subside them and they are subject to us.
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More worthy of worship is the sun, for with it illuminates the whole of this creation and brings life from its warmth;
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Yet the sun also I shall not worship, nor will I place amongst Ha'Elohima the moon or the stars, for these must hide themselves and at times dim their lights.
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For behold, who else was it but YHVH who madea the heavens, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars?
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Who else but YHVH is it that has dried the earth in the midst of the many waters?
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Yea, and who but YHVH is it that has caused me to seek Him out, who but Elohim shall reveal Himself by Himself?
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And it came to pass that Terah began to plot at this time against his son.