Bible verses about "the black race" | Coverdale

¹ Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden? ² Then sayde the woman vnto the serpent: We eate of the frute of the trees in the garden: ³ But as for the frute of the tre that is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde: Eate not ye of it, and touch it not, lest ye dye. ⁴ Then saide the serpent vnto the woman: Tush, ye shall not dye the death. ⁵ For God doth knowe, that in what daye so euer ye eate of it, youre eyes shalbe opened, and ye shalbe as God, and knowe both good and euell. ⁶ And the woman sawe that ye tre was good to eate of, and lustye vnto the eyes, and a pleasaunt tre to make wyse, and toke of the frute of it, and ate, and gaue vnto hir husbande also therof, and he ate. ⁷ Then were the eyes of them both opened, and they perceaued that they were naked, and sowed fygge leaues together, and made them apurns. ⁸ And they herde the voyce of the LORDE God, which walked in the garden in the coole of the daye. And Adam hyd him self with his wyfe, from the presence of ye LORDE God amonge the trees of the garden. ⁹ And ye LORDE God called Adam, and sayde vnto him: Where art thou? ¹⁰ And he saide: I herde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayed, because I am naked, and therfore I hyd my self. ¹¹ And he sayde: who tolde the, that thou art naked? Hast thou not eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, yt thou shuldest not eate? ¹² Then sayde Adam: The woman which thou gauest me (to beare me company) gaue me of the tre, and I ate. ¹³ And the LORDE God sayde vnto the woman: wherfore hast thou done this? The woman sayde: the serpent disceaued me so, that I ate. ¹⁴ Then sayde the LORDE God vnto the serpent: Because thou hast done this, cursed be thou aboue all catell and aboue all beastes of the felde. Vpon thy bely shalt thou go, & earth shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life. ¹⁵ And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele. ¹⁶ And vnto the woman he sayde: I will increase thy sorow, whan thou art with childe: with payne shalt thou beare thy childre, and thy lust shal pertayne vnto yi husbande, and he shal rule the. ¹⁷ And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life. ¹⁸ Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde. ¹⁹ In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne. ²⁰ And Adam called his wyfe Heua, because she is the mother of all lyuynge. ²¹ And the LORDE God made Adam & his wyfe garmentes of skynnes, & those he put on them. ²² And the LORDE God sayde: lo, Adam is become as it were one of vs, & knoweth good & euell. But now lest he stretch his hande, and take also of the tre of life, and eate, and lyue for euer. ²³ Then the LORDE God put him out of the garden of Eden, to tyll ye earth, whece he was take. ²⁴ And he cast Adam out. And before the garden of Eden he set Cherubes, and a naked fyrie swerde, to kepe ye waye vnto the tre of life.

¹ Morouer all the worlde had one tonge & language. ² Now as they wente towarde the East, they founde a playne in ye londe of Synear, & there they dwelt, ³ & saide one to another: Come on, let vs make bryck & burne it. And they toke bryck for stone, & slyme for morter, ⁴ And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes. ⁵ Then came ye LORDE downe, to se ye cite & tower, yt ye childre of me had buylded. ⁶ And ye LORDE saide: Beholde, the people is one, & haue one maner of language amoge the all, & this haue they begonne to do, & wil not leaue of from all yt they haue purposed to do. ⁷ Come on, let vs go downe, & cofounde their tonge eue there, yt one vnderstonde not what another saieth. ⁸ Thus ye LORDE scatred the fro thece in all lodes, so yt they left of to buylde the cite. ⁹ Therfore is it called Babell, because the LORDE cofounded there the language of all the worlde, and from thece scatred them abrode in to all londes. ¹⁰ These are ye generacions of Sem. Sem was an hundreth yeare olde, and begat Arphachsad two yeare after the floude, ¹¹ and lyued therafter fyue hudreth yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. ¹² Arphachsad was fiue & thirtie yeare olde, and begat Salah, ¹³ and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thre yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. ¹⁴ Salah was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Eber, ¹⁵ & lyued therafter foure hudreth & thre yeare, & begat sonnes and doughters. ¹⁶ Eber was foure and thirtie yeare olde, & begat Peleg, ¹⁷ and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thirtie yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. ¹⁸ Peleg was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Regu, ¹⁹ and lyued therafter two hudreth and nyene yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. ²⁰ Regu was two and thirtie yeare olde, and begat Serug, ²¹ and lyued therafter two hundreth and seuen yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. ²² Serug was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Nahor, ²³ and lyued therafter two hundreth yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters. ²⁴ Nahor was nyene and twentye yeare olde, and begat Terah, ²⁵ and lyued herafter an hundreth and nyentene yeare, and begat sonnes and doughters. ²⁶ Terah was seuentie yeare olde, and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot, ²⁸ but Hara dyed before Terah his father in ye londe where he was borne, at Vr in Chaldea. ²⁹ Then Abram and Nahor toke them wyues. Abrams wife was called Sarai, & Nahors wyfe Milca the doughter of Haran, which was father of Milca and Iisca. ³⁰ But Sarai was baren, and had no childe. ³¹ Then toke Terah Abra his sonne, & Lot his sonne Harans sonne, & Sarai his doughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife, & caried them wt him from Vr in Chaldea, to go in to the lande of Canaan. And they came to Haran, & dwelt there. ³² And Terah was two hundreth & fyue yeare olde, and dyed in Haran.

²⁶ and hath made of one bloude all the generacion of men to dwell vpo all the face of ye earth: and hath assygned borders appoynted before, how longe and farre they shulde dwell,