Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible
in a year.
Yesterday we read about the great flood and how God saved Noah and his family from it
and all the animals on the earth and how he made a promise with him and his family afterwards.
Today we get to read more about this promise as well as about Noah's children and their
descendants.
Let's begin.
Today's reading is from Genesis 9, 10, 11.
Chapter 9
So God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill
the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird
of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea.
They are given into your hand.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.
I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning.
From the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man.
From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man.
Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed.
For in the image of God he made man, and as for you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth
abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, And as for me, behold, I establish
my covenant with you and with your descendants after you, and with every living creature
that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you.
Of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth, thus I establish my covenant
with you.
Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood.
Never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every
living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between me
and the earth.
It shall be when I bring a cloud over the earth that the rainbow shall be seen in the
cloud, and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature
of all flesh.
The waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.
And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between
me and all flesh that is on the earth.
And now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And Ham was the father of Canaan.
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
Then he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent.
And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backwards
and covered the nakedness of their father.
Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
So Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him.
And he said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.
May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.
And Noah lived after the flood 350 years, so all the days of Noah were 950 years, and
he died.
Chapter 10
Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And sons were born to them after the flood.
The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Jevan, Tubal, Meshesh, and Tiras.
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Rifath, and Tugarma.
The sons of Jevan were Elishah, Tarshish, Ketim, and Dudanim.
From these, the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone
according to his language, according to their families, and their nations.
The sons of Ham were Kush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
The sons of Kush were Seba, Havilah, Sapta, Rama, and Saptaka.
And the sons of Rama were Sheba and Didan.
Kush begot Nimrod.
He began to be a mighty one on the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord, therefore it is said, like Nimrod, the mighty hunter
before the Lord.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erek, Akkad, and Kalne in the land of Shinar.
From that land, he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-eir, Kala, and Rezin, between
Nineveh and Kala.
Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, and Katlohim, from whom came the
Philistines and Kavtorum.
Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
the Hivite, the Archaite, and the Sinite, the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
Afterward, the families of the Canaanites were dispersed, and the border of the Canaanites
was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar as far as Gaza.
And as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, and Zebuim as far as Lasha.
These were the sons of Ham according to their families, according to their languages, in
their lands, and in their nations.
And children were born also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of
Japheth the elder.
The sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lod, and Aram.
The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Arphaxad begot Sala, and Sala begot Eber.
To Eber were born two sons, the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided,
and his brother's name was Jokten.
Jokten begot Almudad, Shalef, Hazarmaveth, Jera, Hadram, Uzzal, Dikla, Obal, Abimeel,
Sheba, Ophir, Havela, and Jobab.
All these were the sons of Jokten, and their dwelling place was from Misha as you go towards
Sefar, the mountain of the east.
These were the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, in
their lands, according to their nations.
These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations.
And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Chapter 11 Now the whole earth had one language and one
speech, and it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the
land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
Then they said to one another, come let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.
They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar, and they said, come let us build
ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens, let us make a name for ourselves,
lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
But the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower which the sons of men had built,
and the Lord said, indeed the people are one, and they all have one language, and this is
what they begin to do.
Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them, come let us go down, and
there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased
building the city.
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all
the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
This is the genealogy of Shem.
Shem was 100 years old and begot Arfaxad 2 years after the flood.
After he begot Arfaxad, Shem lived 500 years and begot sons and daughters.
Arfaxad lived 35 years and begot Salah.
After he begot Salah, Arfaxad lived 403 years and begot sons and daughters.
Salah lived 30 years and begot Eber.
After he begot Eber, Salah lived 403 years and begot sons and daughters.
Eber lived 34 years and begot Peleg.
After he begot Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and begot sons and daughters.
Peleg lived 30 years and begot Ru.
After he begot Ru, Peleg lived 209 years and begot sons and daughters.
Ru lived 32 years and begot Sirug.
After he begot Surug, Ruh lived 207 years and begot sons and daughters.
Surug lived 30 years and begot Nahor.
After he begot Nahor, Surug lived 200 years and begot sons and daughters.
Nahor lived 29 years and begot Terah.
After he begot Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and begot sons and daughters.
Now Terah lived 70 years and begot Abram, Nahor and Haran.
This is the genealogy of Terah.
Terah begot Abram, Nahor and Haran.
Haran begot Lot and Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of
the Chaldeans.
Then Abram and Nahor took wives.
The name of Abram's wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife, Milca, the daughter
of Haran, the father of Milca and the father of Isca.
But Sarai was barren, she had no child.
Then Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law
Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out from them, from Ur of the Chaldeans to
go to the land of Canaan.
And they came to Haran and dwelt there.
So the days of Terah were 205 years and Terah died in Haran.
I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did and I look forward to seeing you
again tomorrow to continue on our journey.
God bless you and have a great day.