The Story of the Chosen People
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: American Book Company Subjects: Bible Jews Bible stories, English History / Ancient / General History / Jewish Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Biblical Stories Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the orig...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: American Book Company Subjects: Bible Jews Bible stories, English History / Ancient / General History / Jewish Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Biblical Stories Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. THE DELUGE. ADAM and Eve, in the mean while, continued to live alone, mourning the death of Abel, and the departure of Cain. But when they were one hundred and thirty years old, a third son was born to them, and they called him Seth, which means "the appointed," because they thought that it was surely the Redeemer who had come. They were again disappointed, however ; but Seth married, and Adam had many descendants, the sixth in direct line being Enoch. This man was very good and pious, and "walked with God." He was rewarded for his goodness; for God did not allow him to die like the rest of his race, but carried him off to heaven, so that " he should not see death." Enoch's son, Me-thu'se-lah, is noted as having reached the greatest age ever attained by man, -- nine hundred and sixty-nine years. He was two hundred and forty-three years old when Adam died, and must often have heard him tell about the Garden of Eden, the eating of the forbidden fruit, and how he was driven out of Paradise. Methuselah's grandson was No'ah, who was born six hundred years before Methuselah died ; and Noah no doubt often heard his grandfather relate the stories which Adam had told. The world had grown very wicked during the fifteen hundred and fifty-six years which had passed by since the creation of Adam ; for his numerous descendants had married daughters of Cai...
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