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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Yesterday we read about the genealogy of Noah and his family and how he built the ark.

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Today we'll get to read about the great flood and the promise that God makes with Noah afterwards.

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Let's begin.

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Today's reading is Genesis 7 and 8.

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Genesis 7, then the Lord said to Noah, come into the ark, you and all your household,

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because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

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You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female, two each

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of animals that are unclean, male and female, also seven each of birds of the air, male

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and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.

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For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth, forty days and forty

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nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.

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And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.

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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters were on the earth.

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So Noah with his sons, his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters

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of the flood, of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds and of everything

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that creeps on the earth.

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Two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

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And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, seventeenth day of the

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month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows

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of heaven were opened, and the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and

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the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.

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They and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that

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creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

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And they went into the ark of Noah two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of

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life.

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So those that entered, male and female, of all flesh, went in as God commanded him, and

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the Lord shut him in.

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Now the flood was on the earth forty days.

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The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

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The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the

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surface of the waters.

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And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole

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heaven were covered.

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The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered, and all flesh

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died that moved on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps

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on the earth, and every man.

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All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life.

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All that was on the dry land died.

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So he destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground, both man and cattle,

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creeping thing and bird of the air.

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They were destroyed from the earth, only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained

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alive.

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And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

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Chapter 8 Then God commanded Noah and every living thing,

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and all the animals that were with him in the ark, and God made a wind to pass over

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the earth.

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And the waters subsided, the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also

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stopped.

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And the rain from heaven was restrained, and the waters receded continually from the earth.

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At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased, and then the ark rested

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in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month.

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In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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So it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which

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he had made.

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Then he sent out a raven which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from

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the earth.

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He also sent out from himself a dove to see if the waters had receded from the face of

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the ground, but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned

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into the ark to him.

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For the waters were on the face of the whole earth.

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So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

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And he waited yet another seven days.

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And again he sent the dove out from the ark.

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Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was

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in her mouth.

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And no one knew the waters had receded from the earth.

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So he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove which did not return again to

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him anymore.

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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first

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day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth.

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And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground

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was dry.

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And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

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Then God spoke to Noah saying, Go out of the ark you and your wife and your sons and your

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sons wives with you.

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Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and cattle and

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every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth and be

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fruitful and multiply on the earth.

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So Noah went out and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him.

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Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird and whatever creeps on the earth according

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to their families went out of the ark.

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Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean

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bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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And the Lord smelt a soothing aroma.

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Then the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake.

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Although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy

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every living thing as I have done.

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While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day

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and night shall not cease.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.