And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

Intreat the LORD(for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.

If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.

According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.

The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle,( for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.