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Synopsis of Genesis. The events concerning the creation of the world, and the formation of man. Adam receives a command, and the woman is formed from his rib, who, having been deceived by the 56.318 serpent, deceives the man, and having become accursed with him, is cast out of paradise; and the serpent receives the curse to walk on its chest. Cain kills his brother because he was more highly favored, and pays the penalty; and after this he begets children. And Eve also bears Seth. A catalog of those from Adam, and of those from Seth, until Noah, and an accusation against men on account of improper intermarriages and other lawless acts; Here he calls "sons of God" those who trace their lineage from Seth; for it has been said: *I have said, You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High*. And "daughters of men," those from Cain. God foretells to Noah the future destruction of men by the flood, and advises him to make the ark, three hundred cubits in length, fifty cubits in breadth, thirty cubits in height. And when he entered the ark, the flood came for forty days and forty nights. And the water subsided after one hundred and fifty days. And the tops of the mountains were seen on the first day of the tenth month. And after forty days he sent forth the raven, and it did not return; and after seven days he sent forth the dove, and it returned carrying an olive branch. Noah is commanded by God to come out of the ark; and coming out he sacrificed to God, and was blessed with his sons. And he received a promise from God, that such a destruction of men by a flood would never again happen. And after this he blesses Shem and Japheth, but curses Canaan, because his father Ham spoke of his father's nakedness. And the curse comes upon the Gibeonites; or rather it was a pretext of a curse, but the truth was a prophecy. Those from Noah until Peleg, who received this name from the division of the earth in his time. For then they built the tower, whence the place was also called Babylon, which is Confusion, because there their languages were confused. But the story goes that Eber, the father of Peleg, did not agree with the others in the building of the tower, and for this reason his speech was not changed, but he remained having his dialect intact, and from him it received its name. For since he was called Eber, it is called Hebrew, which is also a very great sign that the Hebrew language is older than all languages; for before the languages were confused, everyone used this one. And this Eber is an ancestor of Abraham. And they are genealogized from Seth to Abraham. Terah, the father of Abraham, takes his sons, both Abraham and Nahor, and his 56.319 grandson Lot, and comes to Haran, intending to go to the land of the Canaanites, and when he died in Haran, Abraham is commanded by God to move from Haran, and he came to Shechem in the land of Canaan. And God said to him, that to his seed he would give the land. And Abraham built an altar to God, and pitched his tent by the sea. And when a famine occurred, having gone down to Egypt he instructs his wife to say that she was his sister. And Pharaoh, having taken her, and having been chastised by God, gives her to Abraham. When the shepherds of Abraham and of Lot fought with one another, they divided the dwellings. And Lot took the land of the Sodomites, but Abraham dwelt by the oak of Mamre, and he received promises again from God, both that he would increase his seed to a multitude, and that he would inherit the land. Chedorlaomer, since the five kings of the land of Sodom, who were previously serving him, revolted from him, taking three other kings, made an expedition against them, and having routed them, took captives; among whom was also Lot. But Abraham, having heard, and having pursued with his three hundred and eighteen household members, rescued his nephew with the cavalry and the women;

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Σύνοψις τῆς Γενέσεως. Τὰ κατὰ τὴν κοσμοποιίαν, καὶ τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· πλάσιν. Ἐντολὴν λαμβάνει ὁ Ἀδὰμ, καὶ πλάττεται ἡ γυνὴ ἐκ τῆς πλευρᾶς αὐτοῦ, ἣ ἀπατηθεῖσα ὑπὸ τοῦ 56.318 ὄφεως, ἀπατᾷ τὸν ἄνδρα, καὶ γενομένη μετ' αὐτοῦ ἐπικατάρατος, ἐκβάλλεται τοῦ παραδείσου· καὶ ὁ ὄφις δέχεται κατάραν ἐπὶ τοῦ στήθους περιπατεῖν. Ἀναιρεῖ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὁ Κάϊν διὰ τὸ ὑπερευδοκιμηθῆναι, καὶ δίδωσι δίκην· καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα παιδοποιεῖ. Τίκτει δὲ καὶ Εὔα τὸν Σήθ. Κατάλογος τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ, καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Σὴθ, ἕως τοῦ Νῶε, καὶ κατηγορία τῶν ἀνδρῶν διὰ τὰς οὐ προσηκούσας ἐπιγαμίας καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς ἀνομίας· Υἱοὺς δὲ Θεοῦ ἐνταῦθα καλεῖ τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ Σὴθ κατάγοντας τὸ γένος· καὶ γὰρ εἴρηται· Ἐγὼ εἶπον, Θεοί ἐστε, καὶ υἱοὶ Ὑψίστου πάντες. Θυγατέρας δὲ ἀνθρώπων τὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ Κάϊν. Προλέγει ὁ Θεὸς τῷ Νῶε τὴν μέλλουσαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπώλειαν διὰ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, καὶ παραινεῖ ποιῆσαι τὴν κιβωτὸν, τριακοσίων πήχεων τὸ μῆκος, πεντήκοντα πήχεων τὸ πλάτος, τριάκοντα πήχεων τὸ ὕψος. Ὡς δὲ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν κιβωτὸν, ἐφέρετο ὁ κατακλυσμὸς τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσαράκοντα νύκτας. Ἐνεδίδου δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ μετὰ ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα ἡμέρας. Ὤφθησαν δὲ αἱ κορυφαὶ τῶν ὀρέων πρώτῃ τοῦ δεκάτου μηνός. Καὶ μετὰ τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας ἀπέστειλε τὸν κόρακα, καὶ οὐχ ὑπέστρεψε· καὶ μετὰ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἀπέστειλε τὴν περιστερὰν, καὶ ὑπέστρεψε θαλλὸν ἐλαίας κομίζουσα. Κελεύεται ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ Νῶε ἐξελθεῖν ἐκ τῆς κιβωτοῦ· καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἔθυσε τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ εὐλογήθη μετὰ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἔλαβεν ἐπαγγελίαν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὥστε μηκέτι γενέσθαι τοιαύτην ἀπώλειαν ἀνθρώπων διὰ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ. Καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα εὐλογεῖ μὲν τὸν Σὴμ καὶ τὸν Ἰάφεθ, καταρᾶται δὲ τὸν Χαναὰν, ἐπειδὴ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ Χὰμ ἐξεῖπε τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρός. Ἐκβαίνει δὲ ἡ κατάρα ἐπὶ τῶν Γαβαονιτῶν· μᾶλλον δὲ πρόσχημα μὲν κατάρας ἦν, τὸ δὲ ἀληθὲς προφητεία. Οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Νῶε ἕως τοῦ Φαλὲκ, ὃς ἀπὸ τοῦ μερισθῆναι ἐπ' αὐτοῦ τὴν γῆν τὴν προσηγορίαν ἔλαβε ταύτην. Τότε γὰρ τὸν πύργον ᾠκοδόμησαν, ὅθεν καὶ ὁ τόπος Βαβυλὼν προσηγορεύθη, ὅ ἐστι Σύγχυσις, ἐπειδὴ ἐκεῖ συνεχύθησαν αὐτῶν αἱ γλῶσσαι. Τὸν δὲ πατέρα τοῦ Φαλὲκ τὸν Ἕβερ λόγος ἔχει μὴ ὁμονοῆσαι τοῖς λοιποῖς εἰς τὴν τοῦ πύργου οἰκοδομὴν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο αὐτῷ τὴν λαλιὰν μὴ ἀμειφθῆναι, ἀλλὰ μεῖναι αὐτὸν ἀκέραιον ἔχοντα τὴν διάλεκτον, καὶ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν αὐτὴν λαβεῖν. Ἕβερ γὰρ ἐκείνου καλουμένου, Ἑβραῒς αὕτη κέκληται, ὃ καὶ σημεῖόν ἐστι μέγιστον τοῦ πασῶν τῶν λαλιῶν πρεσβυτέραν εἶναι τὴν Ἑβραΐδα· πρὶν γὰρ συγχυθῆναι τὰς γλώσσας, ταύτῃ πάντες ἐκέχρηντο. Ἔστι δὲ ὁ Ἕβερ οὗτος πρόγονος Ἀβραάμ. Γενεαλογοῦνται δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Σὴθ ἕως τοῦ Ἀβραάμ. Λαμβάνει ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ὁ Θαρᾶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, τόν τε Ἀβραὰμ, καὶ τὸν Ναχὼρ, καὶ τὸν ἔγγονον 56.319 αὐτοῦ Λὼτ, καὶ ἔρχεται εἰς Χαῤῥᾶν, προθέμενος εἰς τὴν Χαναναίων ἐλθεῖν, καὶ ἀποθανόντος αὐτοῦ ἐν Χαῤῥᾷ, προστάττεται ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἀβραὰμ μετοικῆσαι ἀπὸ Χαῤῥᾶν, καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς Συχὲμ τῆς γῆς Χαναάν. Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Θεὸς, τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ δώσειν τὴν γῆν. Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν Ἀβραὰμ θυσιαστήριον τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ἔπηξε τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ κατὰ θάλασσαν. Γενομένου δὲ λιμοῦ, κατελθὼν εἰς Αἴγυπτον παραγγέλλει τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ἀδελφὴ αὐτοῦ εἴη. Καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὴν Φαραὼ, καὶ ἐτασθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, δίδωσι τῷ Ἀβραάμ. Μαχεσθέντων τῶν ποιμένων τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τοῦ Λὼτ πρὸς ἀλλήλους, διείλοντο τὰς οἰκήσεις. Καὶ ὁ μὲν Λὼτ ἔλαβε τὴν Σοδομηνῶν, ὁ δὲ Ἀβραὰμ πρὸς τῇ δρυῒ τῇ Μαμβρὶ κατῴκησεν, ἐπαγγελίας τε ἔλαβε πάλιν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ὅτι εἰς πλῆθος ἐπιδώσει αὐτοῦ τὸ σπέρμα, καὶ ὅτι κληρονομήσει τὴν γῆν. Ὁ Χοδολαγομὸρ, ἐπειδὴ ἀπέστησαν αὐτοῦ οἱ πέντε βασιλεῖς οἱ τῆς Σοδομηνῆς, δουλεύοντες αὐτῷ πρότερον, παραλαβὼν ἑτέρους βασιλεῖς τρεῖς, ἐπεστράτευσεν αὐτοῖς, καὶ τροπωσάμενος ἔλαβεν αἰχμαλώτους· ἐν οἷς ἦν καὶ ὁ Λώτ. Ὁ δὲ Ἀβραὰμ ἀκούσας, καὶ σὺν τοῖς οἰκογενέσιν αὐτοῦ τριακοσίοις δεκαοκτὼ καταδιώξας, ἐξείλετο τὸν ἀδελφιδοῦν μετὰ τῆς ἵππου καὶ τῶν γυναικῶν·