Genesis — Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

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   Therefore heavens and earth be made perfect, and all the ornament of those [or them].
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   And God [ful] filled in the seventh day his work which he made; and he rested in the seventh day from all his work which he had made;
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   and he blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; for in that day God ceased of all his work which he made of nought, that he should make.
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   These be the generations of heaven and of earth, in the day wherein the Lord God made heaven and earth,
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   and each little tree of [the] earth before that it sprang out in [the] earth; and he made each herb of the field before that it burgeoned. For the Lord God had not rained on the earth, and no man there was that wrought [or might work] the earth;
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   but a well went out of [the] earth, and moisted all the higher part of the earth.
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   Therefore the Lord God formed man of the slime of [the] earth, and breathed into his face the breathing of life; and man was made into a living soul.
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   Forsooth the Lord God planted at the beginning paradise of liking or the garden of Eden, wherein he set man whom he had formed.
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   And the Lord God brought forth of the earth each tree fair in sight, and sweet to eat; also he brought forth the tree of life in the midst of paradise, and the tree of knowing of good and of evil.
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    And a river went out from the place of liking or Eden to moist paradise or the garden, which river is parted from thence into four heads.
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    The name of the one river is Pishon, that it is that encompasseth all the land of Havilah, where gold cometh forth,
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    and the gold of that land is the best, and there is found bdellium, that is, a tree of spicery, and the stone onyx;
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    and the name of the second river is Gihon, that it is that encompasseth all the land of Ethiopia;
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    forsooth the name of the third river is Tigris, that goeth against Assyrians; soothly the fourth river is that Euphrates.
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    Therefore the Lord God took man, and set him in paradise of liking, that he should work and keep it.
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    And God commanded to him and said, Eat thou of each tree of paradise;
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    forsooth eat thou not of the tree of knowing of good and of evil; for in whatever day thou shalt eat thereof, thou shalt die by death.
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    And the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
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    And therefore when all living beasts of [the] earth, and all the volatiles of heaven, were formed of [the] earth, the Lord God brought those [or them] to Adam, that he should see what he should call those [or them]; for all thing that Adam called of living soul, that is the name thereof.
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    And Adam called by their names all living things, and all volatiles [of heavens], and all unreasonable beasts of [the] earth. Forsooth to Adam was not found an helper like him.
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    Therefore the Lord God sent sleep into Adam, and when he slept, God took one of his ribs, and filled flesh for it.
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    And the Lord God builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
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    And Adam said, This is now a bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called virago, for she is taken of man.
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    Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain [or two] in one flesh.
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    Forsooth ever either was naked, that is, Adam and his wife, and they were not ashamed.