She Boul ADULT ERVISION IMMENDED 2 MINORS, ILLUSTRATED ‘by R.CrumbEVERY WORD OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT, WHICH 1 DERIVED mom’ SEVERAL SOURCES, INCLUDING THE IKING JAMES VERSION, metas From Rossrr ALTER’ Recevr reansLaTion, Tes Fa: Bases OP Moses oom) Des ta OF 7 BNBLE THAT (VE SEEN ConTAINS FASEAGES OF COMMLETELY MAOCUP NARAUIVE MO Seems one ete Fo RaRRIUNE avo "MODERNIZE" THE OLD SCRIPTURES, AND STILL, THESE VARIOUS come BOOK glauEs hus crore Tener eee IUEE THAT THE BIBLE 15 "THE WoAD OF GoD!'oR “INSPIRED er GOD!” WHEREAS I aovione= LY, D0 MOT BELEVE THE BIBLE 15 "HG WORD OF GoD! | SeLEVE (T's THE WORDS Of ma, Insane Cacti oA, TEXT WIM LAYERS OF MEANING THAT REACH DEEP WTO OUR COLLEEIVE ConsCioUsness, oot HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, IF YOU WILL. T7 SEEMS INDEED TO BE AN MSPRED WOK, BUT I Baume chat MANY GENERATIONS. BEFORE REAOHNG (TS FINAL, FIXED FORM AS WE KNOW IT DUPING THE “BABYLONIAN Boars HRCA 690 B.GE, EF WAS THE PRIESTLY CASTE WHO, 1M THAT PERIOD, COWLED AND PUT ITO A COMESIYE tee, TNS COLLECTION OF STORIES, LEGENDS, AND TRIBAL LINEAGES, SOMETIMES WEAVING TOGETHER TO DiEFeveAT ven OF THE SAME STORY, AND PROCLAIMED THE FISHED PRODUCT A SACRED, HOLY DODUMEHT, THE eeeculs Wy nee CAME OBECTS OF VENERATION, FOR PRIVILEGED EYES ONLY. ‘The STONES oF “WIS PeOME, fue FleoRCwG, wens nea SOMETHWG MORE THAN! JST STORIES, THEY WERE THE FANDAMON, HE SOURCE. IN WRMING, OF RELGILS hes Poune POWER, HANDED DOWN By GOO FIIMSELE. "TWIS DOCUMENT WAS WRITTEN PROOF THAT YoU WERE ONE of THE lon SEN PEOPLE, SPECIAL, AND DIFFERENT FOM ALL OTHER PEOPLES, MooceN SCHOLARS SAY THAT He PRIESTS IN TERJECTED WORDS AND DOCTORED THE ALREADY ANCIENT STORIES TD STRENGTHEN THEIR POLITICAL PURPOSES, Mayet So1LaAS, OAMINING CLOSELY THE TERSELY WORDED CAMPTERS. OF GENESIS, PERCEIVE IN THEM CARLIE, LOST MEWINGS AND INTENTIONS, THINGS TWAT HAD BEEN ALTERED BY THE INCREASINGLY ENTRENCHED PRIESTS, ND THE TRIUMPH OF PATRIARCHY OVER AN ANCIENT AND EVER MORE DIMILY REMEMBERED MATRIARCHY, ‘Mu WS BEEN LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME, Much of WHAT THE SCHOLARS SAV 15 EDUCATED GUESSIWOR, AS THEY PORE GMER THE CLUES AND HINTS ANID TRY TD FILL IN THE MISSING FRAGMENTS, THE DEALS TART GOT LOST oR WERE SUPPRESSED TOO LONG AGO TO EVER BE RETRIEVED. Witte WORKING On Tas BOOK 1 READ. SOME OF THESE SCHOLARLY EXAMINGNONS OF GENESIS AND FOUND THEM HELPFUL IN ENRICHING THE BACKGROUND MATERIAL FoR THE CONTENT OF THE DRAWINGS, Te NY VSUAL, LITERAL iwTeRPREDTON OF THE BOI oF GENESIS OFFENDS OR OUTRAGES SOME RESDERS, \WhicH SEEMS INEVITABLE CONSIDERING THAT THE-TEXT (S REVERED BY MAWY PEOPLE, ALL CAN SBN IN MOE FENSE 5 THAT | APPROACHED THIS AS A STRAIGHT ILLUSTRATION JOB, WITH NO INTENTION TO PUDICULE. (OR WAKE VISUAL. JOKES. 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CRUMB, Jan., 2009Chapter 4 AC HEN Gop BEGAN To a CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE EARTH WAS THEN WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID, AND DARKNESS WAS OVER THE DEEP, AND GOb's BREATH HOVERING OVER THE WATERS.Aso Goo sain, "Ler THERE BEA VAULT IN THE MIDST OF THE WATERS, AND UBT IT DIVIDE WATER FROM WATERY AND GoD MADE THE VAULT AND (9 DIVIDED THE WATER BENEATH 'THE VAULT FROM THE WATER ABOVE THE VAULT, AND SO IT WAS. AND Go CALLED THE VAUUT HEAVENS, AND, TP WAS BVENING AND IT WAS MORNING, A SECOND DAY. Awo Goo gaio,"LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH GRASS, PLANTS VIELDING SEED OF BACH HIND, AND ‘TREES BEARING FRUIT OF BACH KIND, THAT HAS VTS SEED WITHIN IT UPON THE EARTH” AND’ SOIT WAS. Axo Gop saw tHe iGut, THAT IT WAS Goo, AND Gob DIVIDED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS | ‘AND GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAV, AND THE DARK NESS He CALLED NIGHT. AND 1? WAS EVENING AND IT WAS MORNING, A FIRS? DAY. Anp Gob snip, “LET THE WATERS UNDER THE HEAVENS BE GATHERED IN ONE PLACE $o THAT ‘THE DRY LAND WILL APPSAR” AND SO 17 WAS. AND Gop CALLED THE DRY LAND AND ‘THE GATHERING OF WATERS HE CALLED SEAS, AND GoD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND THE BARTH PUT FORTH GRASS, PLANTS: YIEUDING SEED OF EACH KIND, AND TREES BEARING FRUIT THA? HAS ITS SEED WITHIN TT OF EACH KIND, AND GoD SAW THAT IT WAS GooD, AND IT WAS EVENING AND IT WAS MORNING, A THIRD DAY.Ano Goo saip,“LeT Tuere be Lisets | Axo Goo mane Te two Grea LIGHTS, BOE UUL A cee ior tin,| Os comers Ommere nay TRE DAY FROM THE NIGHT, AND LE” aT BEFOR SIGNS FOR THE FIXED TIMES AND | NIGHT AND THE STARS. "OR DAYS AND YEARS, a 5 FoR DAYS , AND THEY GHALL DE. LIGHTS IN TRE VAULT OP THE HEAVENS TO GIVE LIGHT UPON THE EARTH.” ANDSOIT IAS. - ‘ a Mb Va oT THE WATERS BRING | AND GoD BLESSED THEM, SAVING, “BE FRUIT- IVING CREATURES AND FUL AND MULTIPLY AND FILL THB WATER IN; ‘BIRDS THAT FLY OVER. THE EARTH ACROSS THE) THE SEAS AND LET THE BIRDS MULTIDLY IN VAULT OF THE HEAVENS.” AND Gop CREATED | THB Ei Awp Goo sap, “ue FORTH SWARMS OP Lil SARTH.” AND IT WAS EVENING AND IT THE GREAT SEA MONSTERS, AND EVERY | WAS MORNING, A FIFTH DAv. ‘CREATURE THAT Ci LIVING: WATER HAD BROUGHT FORTH IN SWARMS, AND ALL THE WINGED BIRDS OF EVERY KIND, AND Gob SAW THAT I? WAS GOOD.Ano Gop CREATED MAN INHis OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF Gop He CREATED HIM, E AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM. SEA. ‘THE CATTLE, AND OVER THE EARTH, AND OVER, EVERY CRAWLING THING THAT CRAWLS UPON ‘THE EARTH.” pe : ’ Anv Gop BLESSED THEM, AnD Gop SAID [ Avo Gop sa... } : FO PREM “5 GE FRUITFOL AND MOLTIDLY BEHOLD, I GIVE YOU EVERY AND FILL THE GARTH AND MASTER 5( SEED-BEARING PLANT ON THE FACE IT AND HAVE DOMINION OVER (OF ALL. THE EARTH AND EVERY TREE ‘THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND OVER "THAT HAS FRUIT-BEARING SEED, THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS =ya|_ Yours Ti AND Ever Beasr THAT y—{ Fea rom Foods a OE CRAWLS UPON THE EARTH,Ano 1s Lorp Gop PLANTeDA (GARDEN DN BDEN, TO THE EAST, AND "THERE HEPUT THE MAN WHOM HE {HAD FORMED. AND OUT OF THE GROUND THE LorD Gop cAUSED "TO GROW BVERY TREE THAD WAS PLEASING TO THE SIGHT AND if GOOD FOR FOOD, WITH THE TREE OF LiFe IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SZ ‘A aiver RUNS OUT OF Boen 10 [AnD WATER THe GARDEN, AND IT WATER THe GEN Osa ) WINDS THROUGH Tis WHOLE LAND | GOES 70 THE BAST OF ASHUR; "THE ONE THE STREAMS, ‘THE NAME OF THE FIRST | OF CUSH. AND THE FOURTH RIVER 1S 18 PISHON, THE ONE THAT WINDS: BupHRATES. ‘THROUGH THE WHOLE LANDOF HAV- bps, WHERE THERE IS GOLD, ‘THE GOW OF THAT LAND 1S GOOD; EDEL LLUM 18 THERE, AND LAPIS CAZULL.oem teas ED FROM ALL His TASK THAT He HAD CREATED 10 DO. On tae pay me Lor Gop ape Barri AND HEAVEN, WHEN NO SHRUB OF THE FIELD was ver ON EARTH AND NO GRASSES OF THE FIELD HAD VET SPROUTED, BECAUSE THE LORD GOD HAD NOT SENT RAIN UPON THE BARTH AND THERE, WAS NOMAN To TLL, THE SOTL, BUT WETNESS WOULD WELL UP FROM THE GROUND TO WATER ALL THE WHOLE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, THEN THE LORD GOD MAN Front THE DIRD OF THE. GROUND, AND BUEW INTO HIS NOJTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, AND MAN BECAMS A LIVING CREATURE, caCAUSE 1 WAS NAKED, AND 1 HID, THE WOMAV wHom You GAVE To BE WITH ME, SHE GAVE ME FROM THE ‘TREE, AND I ATE,., _ al THE SERPENT ¥ BEGUILED ME, AND I ON YouR BELLY SHALL YOU CRAWL Ano rue Lorp Gop saip jp ae T WILL TERRIBLY. SHARPEN YOUR BIRTH PANGS IN PAIN SHALL, YOU BEAR CHILDREN / AND FOR YOUR MAN SHALL BE YOUR LONGING, AND HE SHALL RULE WILL TRAMPLE YOUR OVER YOU? HEAD, AND YOU WILL BITE HIS HEEl m7Awp ToApam He sap. - BECAUSE YOU LISTENED TO THE Voice OF YOUR WIFE AND ATE FROM THE TREE OF WHICH T ;MANDED YOU, "YOU SHALLNOT EAT FROM IT) CURSED BE THE BECAUSE OF YOUS GROUND Austo Apa CALLED HIS ‘WIFE'S NAME EVE, FOR SHE WAS THE MOTHER. OF AULT Ganven oF Et ‘WHIRLING SWOF YOU, AND YOU SHA} Asp He prove 7M SORROW YOU SHALL EAT FROM IT Au AND "THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE! THORNS: THISTLE SHALL IT SPROUT FOR iLL EAT THE GRASSES (OF THE FIELD! BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW SHALL YOU EAT BREAD, TILL YOU RETURN TO QL. THE GROUND, FOR FROM. THERE YOU WERE TAKEN? FOR DUST YOU NOW THAT THE MAN HAS BECONIE LiKE ONE OF US, KNOWING GOOD ‘TS MAN OUT, AND SET UP BAST OF THE IDEN THE CHERUBINT AND THE FLAME OF THE RD TO GUARD THE WAY TOTKE TREE OF LIPE.UIALTER | ee THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED Bt terrae ne nmi ey \ cuarran ; BARE [jd Ged began ts ete Wen a FREES Ct on Be eae the mie aoe i and carth, and the earth then 1 Fofitd the ‘care was. se Out form, ang forth ‘fe, and fowl that may fly P(e ile ard ssc ang ania ther the deep and eee Sedge ite peepee sie Saco oa va th wesc ye heli eh ee es tebe dee te Av ih. Are Cod sow the ehh, that i was pat and Godt SSI a tenes ee Eas aa dtl Ue tide fron the darkness, And Cot called the Tight Day, and Oe eaatiarae eee aegis S hate fhe a alled Night. And i we vening and sages EA Cod cat ie iene me Se ania yan a ii the ea Pag ft Was morning ies he called Nigh D SreeiNe 35 And tae eyes aC orang were fete ol isa i be avauttin ie ht oF the ware late Satu ete ann Be sia. 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