Produced by Colin Bell, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Transcriber's Note: _Italic words_ have been enclosed in underscores. As the oe ligature cannot be included in this format, it has been replaced with the separate letters in "manoeuvre" and "Phoenician". A few minor typographical errors have been silently corrected. Some inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. The Table of Contents refers to original page numbers.] THE BOOK OF GENESIS. BY MARCUS DODS, D.D., AUTHOR OF "ISRAEL'S IRON AGE," "THE PARABLES OF OUR LORD," "THE PRAYER THAT TEACHES TO PRAY," ETC. NEW YORK: A. C. ARMSTRONG AND SON 714, BROADWAY. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. THE CREATION 1 CHAPTER II. THE FALL 15 CHAPTER III. CAIN AND ABEL 28 CHAPTER IV. CAIN'S LINE, AND ENOCH 42 CHAPTER V. THE FLOOD 55 CHAPTER VI. NOAH'S FALL 68 CHAPTER VII. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM 81 CHAPTER VIII. ABRAM IN EGYPT 96 CHAPTER IX. LOT'S SEPARATION FROM ABRAM 108 CHAPTER X. ABRAM'S RESCUE OF LOT 121 CHAPTER XI. COVENANT WITH ABRAM 134 CHAPTER XII. BIRTH OF ISHMAEL 147 CHAPTER XIII. THE COVENANT SEALED 159 CHAPTER XIV. ABRAHAM'S INTERCESSION FOR SODOM 172 CHAPTER XV. DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN 186 CHAPTER XVI. SACRIFICE OF ISAAC 198 CHAPTER XVII. ISHMAEL AND ISAAC 212 CHAPTER XVIII. PURCHASE OF MACHPELAH 226 CHAPTER XIX. ISAAC'S MARRIAGE 240 CHAPTER XX. ESAU AND JACOB 254 CHAPTER XXI. JACOB'S FRAUD 267 CHAPTER XXII. JACOB'S FLIGHT AND DREAM 279 CHAPTER XXIII. JACOB AT PENIEL 293 CHAPTER XXIV. JACOB'S RETURN 307 CHAPTER XXV. JOSEPH'S DREAMS 321 CHAPTER XXVI. JOSEPH IN PRISON 339 CHAPTER XXVII. PHARAOH'S DREAMS 355