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The Great Bible 1539
11:1 | Al the whole erth was of one language & lyke speche. |
11:2 | And it happened whan they wente furth from the east, they founde a playne in the londe of Sinhar, & there they abode. |
11:3 | And they sayd euery one to his neyghboure: Come, let vs prepare brycke, & burne them in the fyre. And they had brycke for stone, & slyme had they in steade of morter. |
11:4 | And they sayde: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heauen: & let vs make vs a name, lest haply we be scatred abrode in to the vpper face of the whole erth. |
11:5 | But the Lord came downe, to se the cytie and tower whych the chyldren of men buylded. |
11:6 | And the Lorde sayde: Beholde, the people is one, and they haue all one language, & thys they begynne to do, neyther wyll it be restrayned from them, whatsoeuer they haue ymagined to do. |
11:7 | Come on, let vs go downe, and confounde theyr language, that euery one perceaue not hys neyghbours speche. |
11:8 | And so the Lorde scatred them from that place into the vpper face of all the erth. And they left of to buylde the cytie. |
11:9 | And therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lorde dyd there confounde the language of all the erth. And from thence dyd the Lorde scater them abrode vpon the face of all the erth. |
11:10 | These are the generacyons of Sem: Sem was an hundreth yeare olde, and begat Arphachsad two yeare after the floude. |
11:11 | And Sem lyued (after he begat Arphachsad) fyue hundreth yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:12 | Arphachsad lyued fyue and thyrtye yeares, & begat Selah. |
11:13 | And Arphachsad lyued (after he begat Selah) foure hundreth & thre yeares, and begat sonnes & daughters. |
11:14 | Selah lyued thyrtye yeares, & begat Eber. |
11:15 | And Selah lyued (after he begat Eber) foure hundreth and thre yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:16 | Eber lyued foure and thyrtye yeares, and begat Peleg. |
11:17 | And Eber lyued (after he begat Peleg) foure hundreth and thyrtye yeares, & begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:18 | Peleg lyued thyrtye yeares, & begat Reu. |
11:19 | And Peleg lyued (after he begat Reu) two hundreth and nyne yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:20 | Reu lyued two and thyrtye yeares, and begat Serug. |
11:21 | And Reu lyued (after he begat Serug) two hundreth and seuen yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:22 | Serug lyued thyrtye yeares, & begat Nahor. |
11:23 | And Serug lyued (after he begat Nahor) two hundreth yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:24 | And Nahor lyued nyne & twentye yeares, and begat Terah. |
11:25 | And Nahor lyued (after he begat Terah) an hundreth and nynetene yeares, and begat sonnes and daughters. |
11:26 | Terah lyued seuentye yeares, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
11:27 | These are the generacyons of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor & Haran. Haran begat Lot. |
11:28 | And Haran dyed in the presence of Terah hys father, in the londe of hys natyuitye, euen in Ur of the Caldees. |
11:29 | Abram and Nahor toke them wyues: The name of Abrams wyfe was Sarai, & the name of Nahors wyfe was Milca, the daughter of Haran the father of Milca & the father of Iisca. |
11:30 | But Sarai was baren, & had no chylde. |
11:31 | And Terah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, hys sonnes sonne, & Sara hys daughter in lawe, hys sonne Abrams wyfe. And they departed together from Ur of the Caldees, that they myght go into the londe of Chanaan, & they came vnto Charan, & dwelt there. |
11:32 | And the dayes of Terah were two hundreth and fyue yeares, and Terah dyed in Haran. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."