Day 4 of 365

Gen 8:1–10:32

8:1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

8:2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

8:3 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

8:4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

8:5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

8:6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

8:7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

8:8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

8:9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

8:10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

8:11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

8:12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

8:13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

8:14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

8:15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

8:16 "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

8:17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

8:18 Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

8:19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

8:20 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.

8:21 The Lord smelled the pleasant aroma. The Lord said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

8:22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

9:3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

9:4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.

9:5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

9:6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

9:7 Be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

9:8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

9:9 "As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

9:10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

9:11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."

9:12 God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

9:13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

9:14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

9:16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

9:17 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

9:18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

9:20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

9:21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

9:22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

9:23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

9:24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

9:25 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."

9:26 He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

9:27 May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant."

9:28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.

9:29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

10:1 Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

10:5 Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

10:8 Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord."

10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

10:11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).

10:13 Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

10:15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

10:16 the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

10:17 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

10:18 the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.

10:19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

10:21 To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

10:24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.

10:25 To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

10:26 Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

10:30 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Matt 4:1–25

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

3 And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

4 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"

5 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

6 and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you do not dash your foot against a stone.'"

7 Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'"

8 Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

9 And he said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."

10 Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"

11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.

12 Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

15 "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."

17 From that time, Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is near."

18 And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

19 And he said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men."

20 And they immediately left their nets and followed him.

21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, Jacob the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

22 And they immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

23 And he went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

24 And the report about him went out into all Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

25 And great multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

Prov 1:10–23

10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

14 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

15 My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

18 but these lie in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.