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OF THE

HOLY BIBLE,

FOR THE USE OF THE

NEGRO SLAVES,

IN THE

BRITISH WEST-INDIA ISLANDS.

London:

PRINTED BY LAW AND GILBERT,

St. John's Square, Clerkenwell.

14.5.0.14

The First Book of MOSES, called GENESIS.

CHAP. I.

1 The creation of heaven and earth. 26 Of man int he image of God. 29 The appointment of food.

N the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of

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