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Excerpt from “Of Modern Poetry” by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1942 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1970 by Holly Stevens, reprinted from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Excerpts from Genesis I^-II by Claus Westermann, copyright © 1984 by Fortress Press and SPCK, reprinted by permission of Augsburg Fortress; Genesis 12-36 by Claus Westermann, copyright © 1985 by Fortress Press and SPCK, reprinted by permission of Augsburg Fortress; Genesis 37-50 by Claus Westermann, copyright © 1986 by Fortress Press and SPCK, reprinted by permission of Augsburg Fortress.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bible. O.T. Genesis. English. Mitchell. 1996.

Genesis/ A new translation [and commentary] of the classic biblical stories by
Stephen Mitchell.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-06-017249-5

1. Bible. O.T. Genesis—Commentaries. 2. Bible stories.—O.T. Genesis.

BS1233.M57 1996

222′.1107—dc20 96-16566

96 97 98 99 00 /RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1