Through My Bible Yr 03 – March 02

Genesis 7:1 – 8:19

Through My Bible – March 02

Genesis 7:1 – 8:19 (EHV)

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Genesis 7

¹The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and your entire household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. ²From every clean animal take with you seven pairs,^[1] a male and his female. From the animals that are not clean, take two, a male and his female. ³Also from the ⎣clean⎦ birds of the sky take seven and seven, male and female, ⎣and of all the unclean birds, one pair, a male and a female⎦^[2] to keep their offspring alive on the face of the whole earth. ⁴In seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

⁵Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.

The Flood

⁶Noah was six hundred years old when the flood^[3] came, and water covered the earth.

⁷Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the waters of the flood. ⁸Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground ⁹went into the ark with Noah two by two (male and female), just as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰After seven days, the waters of the flood came on the earth. ¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that very day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates^[4] of the sky were opened. ¹²The rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On that same day Noah, Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons along with them entered the ark. ¹⁴They went in with every animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and everything that flies according to its kind, flying birds of every sort. ¹⁵Pairs of all the animals^[5] that have the breath of life in them went to Noah in the ark. ¹⁶A male and female of each animal that breathes went in, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut Noah in.

¹⁷The flood kept coming on the earth for forty days. The waters became deeper and lifted up the ark until it floated high above the earth. ¹⁸The water kept increasing and overwhelmed the earth, and the ark was carried along on the surface of the water. ¹⁹The water overwhelmed the earth. All the high mountains that were under the entire sky were covered. ²⁰The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains and covered them. ²¹All living creatures^[6] that moved on the earth perished, including birds, livestock, wild animals, every creeping thing that crawls on the earth, and all mankind. ²²Everything that breathed the breath of life through its nostrils, that is, everything that was on the dry land, died. ²³Every living thing that was on the face of the earth was wiped out, including mankind, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They all were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, as well as those who were with him in the ark. ²⁴The waters overwhelmed the earth for one hundred fifty days.

Genesis 8

¹God remembered Noah, as well as all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. So God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. ²The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were also closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. ³The waters kept receding from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased. ⁴In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.