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God’s Covenant with Noah • GENESIS 9:1-17
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told
them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. 2All
the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all
the small animals that scurry along the ground,
and all the fish in the sea will look on you with
fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.
3 I have given them to you for food, just as I have
given you grain and vegetables. 4 But you must
never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.
5 “And I will require the blood of anyone who
takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills
a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a
fellow human must die. 6If anyone takes a human
END & NEW
BEGINNING
7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters]. 8:4 Hebrew on the seventeenth day
of the seventh month; see 7:11. 8:5 Hebrew On the first day of the tenth
month; see 7:11 and note on 8:4. 8:13 Hebrew On the first day of the first
month; see 7:11. 8:14 Hebrew The twenty-seventh day of the second
month arrived; see note on 8:13. 8:20 Hebrew every clean animal and
every clean bird.
MISSIONS
SILENT
RETURN
CAPTIVITY
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent
a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. 2The underground waters
stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the
sky were stopped. 3 So the floodwaters gradually
receded from the earth. After 150 days, 4 exactly
five months from the time the flood began,* the
boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5Two
and a half months later,* as the waters continued
to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
6After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat 7and released a raven.
The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters
on the earth had dried up. 8He also released a dove
to see if the water had receded and it could find dry
ground. 9But the dove could find no place to land
because the water still covered the ground. So it
CHURCH
The Flood Recedes • GENESIS 8:1-22
JANUARY 3
returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand
and drew the dove back inside. 10After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.
11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah
knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. 12He
waited another seven days and then released the
dove again. This time it did not come back.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day
of the new year, ten and a half months after the
flood began,* the floodwaters had almost dried
up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering
of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground
was drying. 14 Two more months went by,* and at
last the earth was dry!
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Leave the boat, all
of you—you and your wife, and your sons and
their wives. 17 Release all the animals—the birds,
the livestock, and the small animals that scurry
along the ground—so they can be fruitful and
multiply throughout the earth.”
18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives
left the boat. 19And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there
he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and
birds that had been approved for that purpose.*
21And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the
sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again
curse the ground because of the human race, even
though everything they think or imagine is bent
toward evil from childhood. I will never again
destroy all living things. 22As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and
heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
GOSPEL
days, the waters of the flood came and covered
the earth.
11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the
rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 12The rain
continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat
with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. 14 With them in the boat
were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic
and wild, large and small—along with birds
of every kind. 15 Two by two they came into
the boat, representing every living thing that
breathes. 16A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then
the Lord closed the door behind them.
17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper,
covering the ground and lifting the boat high
above the earth. 18As the waters rose higher and
higher above the ground, the boat floated safely
on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even
the highest mountains on the earth, 20 rising
more than twenty-two feet* above the highest
peaks. 21All the living things on earth died—birds,
domestic animals, wild animals, small animals
that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land
died. 23 God wiped out every living thing on the
earth—people, livestock, small animals that
scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky.
All were destroyed. The only people who survived
were Noah and those with him in the boat. 24And
the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
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