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Old Testament:  Genesis 7-9

Genesis 7

The Flood Covers the Earth
 1  When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.  2  Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, [2]  and take one pair of each of the others.  3  Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood.  4  Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created."
   5  So Noah did everything as the LORD commanded him.
   6  Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.  7  He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.  8  With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.  9  They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.  10  After seven 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.  12  The 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.  16  A 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.  18  As 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 [20]  above the highest peaks.  21  All 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.  24  And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.

Genesis 8

The Flood Recedes
 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.  2  The 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, [4]  the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.  5  Two and a half months later, [5]  as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
   6  After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat  7  and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.  8  He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.  9  But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.  10  After 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.  12  He 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, [13]  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, [14]  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.  19  And 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. [20]   21  And 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.  22  As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."

Genesis 9

God Confirms His Covenant
 1  Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.  2  All 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.  6  If anyone takes a human life, that person's life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings [6]  in his own image.  7  Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth."
   8  Then God told Noah and his sons,  9  "I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,  10  and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.  11  Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth."
   12  Then God said, "I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come.  13  I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.  14  When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,  15  and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.  16  When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth."  17  Then God said to Noah, "Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on earth."

Noah's Sons
 18  The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)  19  From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth.
   20  After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.  21  One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.  22  Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.  23  Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.
   24  When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.  25  Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:

"May Canaan be cursed!
  May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives."

 26  Then Noah said,

"May the LORD, the God of Shem, be blessed,
  and may Canaan be his servant!
 27  May God expand the territory of Japheth!
May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem, [27] 
  and may Canaan be his servant."

   28  Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood.  29  He lived 950 years, and then he died.
 31  These were the descendants of Shem, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.

<<  7:2 Hebrew of each clean animal; similarly in 7:8.
<<  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.
<<  9:6 Or man; Hebrew reads ha-adam.
<<  9:27 Hebrew May he live in the tents of Shem.

New Testament:  Matthew 3

Matthew 3

John the Baptist Prepares the Way
 1  In those days John the Baptist came to the Judean wilderness and began preaching. His message was,  2  "Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near."  3  The prophet Isaiah was speaking about John when he said,

"He is a voice shouting in the wilderness,
`Prepare the way for the LORD's coming!
  Clear the road for him!'" [3] 

   4  John's clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.  5  People from Jerusalem and from all of Judea and all over the Jordan Valley went out to see and hear John.  6  And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.
   7  But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, [7]  he denounced them. "You brood of snakes!" he exclaimed. "Who warned you to flee God's coming wrath?  8  Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.  9  Don't just say to each other, `We're safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.' That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.  10  Even now the ax of God's judgment is poised, ready to sever the roots of the trees. Yes, every tree that does not produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown into the fire.
   11  "I baptize with [11]  water those who repent of their sins and turn to God. But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am—so much greater that I'm not worthy even to be his slave and carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. [11]   12  He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire."

The Baptism of Jesus
 13  Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John.  14  But John tried to talk him out of it. "I am the one who needs to be baptized by you," he said, "so why are you coming to me?"
   15  But Jesus said, "It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires. [15] " So John agreed to baptize him.
   16  After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.  17  And a voice from heaven said, "This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy."
<<  3:2 Or has come, or is coming soon.
<<  3:3 Isa 40:3 (Greek version).
<<  3:7 Or coming to be baptized.
<<  3:11a Or in. 3:11b Or in the Holy Spirit and in fire.
<<  3:15 Or for we must fulfill all righteousness.
<<  3:16 Some manuscripts read opened to him.

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