Archives for February 28, 2002

Genesis 8:13-22 (NRSV)

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Verse ¹³In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying. Verse ¹⁴In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

Verse ¹⁵Then God said to Noah, Verse ¹⁶"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. Verse ¹⁷Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh-birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth-so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." Verse ¹⁸So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. Verse ¹⁹And every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by families.

Verse ²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Verse ²¹And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. Verse ²²As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."