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THE ARGVMENT OF GENESIS. maner, Iacob otherwise called Israel, with al his progenie, descended from the Land of Canaan into Aegypt, and were there entertayned. So this booke contayneth the historie of two thousand three hundred & odde yeares. And it may be diuided into eight partes. The first contayneth the Creation of Heauen and Earth, & other Creatures, and lastly of Man chap. 1. & 2. The second part is of the trangression & fal of man, & his casting out of Paradise, of multiplication of man, and of sinne, though stil some were iust, of the general floud, that drowned al except eight persons, & few other liuing creatures of the earth. from the third chap. to the 8. The third part is of the new increase, & multiplication of the same. from the 8. chap. to the 11. The fourth, of the confusion of tongues, & the diuision of nations. in the 11. chap. The fift relateth Abrahams going forth of his countrie, Gods promise, that in his seede al Nations should be blessed, & the commandment of Circumcision, from the 12. chap. to the 21. The sixth part recounteth the progenie, and other blessings, especially the great vertues of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob. from the 21. chap. to the 37. The seuenth part reporteth the felling of Ioseph into Aegypt, and his aduancement there. from the 37. chap. to the 46. The eight and last part is of Iacob, and his progenies going into Aegypt, their intertainment there, and of Iacobs, and finally of Iosephs death. in the fiue last cahpters.

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