title: Genesis made whole: One complete story of the patriarchs
author: Todd G Anderson
description: One complete story of the Patriarchs. Includes KJV Genesis with italicized contributions from Moses, Abraham, Joseph Smith translations, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith; also includes clarifications to Genesis from a retranslation of the Hebrew.
zlib_text: GENESIS
  POUL ANDERSON
  GENESIS
  1
  
  CONTENTS
  PART ONE . 4
  I 5
  II 8
  III 9
  IV .. 21
  V .. 22
  VI 33
  VII 52
  VIII 55
  PART TWO .. 56
  I 57
  II 61
  III 69
  IV .. 77
  V .. 80
  VI 88
  VII 95
  VIII 110
  IX .. 115
  X .. 120
  XI 131
  XII 134
  GENESIS
  2
  
  To Greq Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin, Killer Bees and COSMIC craftsmen
   PART ONE
  To follow knowledge like a sinking star.
  Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
  ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
   I
  The story is of a man, a woman, and a world. But ghosts pass through it, and gods. Time does, which is more
  mysterious than any of these.
  A boy stood on a hilltop and looked skyward. The breeze around him was a little cold, as if it whispered of the spaces
  yonder. He kept his parka hood up. Gloves didn’t make his fingers too clumsy for the telescope he had carried here.
  Already now, before the autumnal equinox, summer was dying out of the Tanana valley and the nights lengthening
  fast. Some warmth did linger in the forest that enclosed this bare height: he caught a last f