Bible Reading Plan – Day 2

₁₇Cain and his wife had a son and named him Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son.

₁This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself. ₂He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Humanity”.) ₃When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth. ₄After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children ₅and died at the age of 930.

₆When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh, ₇and then lived another 807 years. He had other children ₈and died at the age of 912.

₉When Enosh was ninety, he had a son, Kenan, ₁₀and then lived another 815 years. He had other children ₁₁and died at the age of 905.

₁₂When Kenan was seventy, he had a son, Mahalalel, ₁₃and then lived another 840 years. He had other children ₁₄and died at the age of 910.

₁₅When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared, ₁₆and then lived another 830 years. He had other children ₁₇and died at the age of 895.

₁₈When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch, ₁₉and then lived another 800 years. He had other children ₂₀and died at the age of 962.

₂₁When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah. ₂₂After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children. ₂₃He lived to be 365 years old. ₂₄He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.

₂₅When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech, ₂₆and then lived another 782 years. He had other children ₂₇and died at the age of 969.

₂₈When Lamech was 182, he had a son, ₂₉and said, “From the very ground on which the LORD put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah. ₃₀Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children ₃₁and died at the age of 777.

₃₂After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

₁When the human race had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born, ₂some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked. ₃Then the LORD said, “I will not allow people to live for ever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years.” ₄In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

₅When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time, ₆he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret ₇that he said, “I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them.” ₈But the LORD was pleased with Noah.

_9-10This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God, ₁₁but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere. ₁₂God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.

₁₃God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to the whole human race. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds. ₁₄Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out. ₁₅Make it 133 metres long, 22 metres wide, and thirteen metres high. ₁₆Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 44 centimetres between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side. ₁₇I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die, ₁₈but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives. _19-20Take into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and of every kind of bird, in order to keep them alive. ₂₁Take along all kinds of food for you and for them.” ₂₂Noah did everything that God commanded.

₁The LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right. ₂Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal. ₃Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth. ₄Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made.” ₅And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded.

₆Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth. ₇He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood. ₈A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean, ₉went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded. ₁₀Seven days later the flood came.

₁₁When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened, ₁₂and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights. ₁₃On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. ₁₄With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird. ₁₅A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah, ₁₆as God had commanded. Then the LORD shut the door behind Noah.

₁₇The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float. ₁₈The water became deeper, and the boat drifted on the surface. ₁₉It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains; ₂₀it went on rising until it was about seven metres above the tops of the mountains. ₂₁Every living being on the earth died — every bird, every animal, and every person. ₂₂Everything on earth that breathed died. ₂₃The LORD destroyed all living beings on the earth — human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat. ₂₄The water did not start going down for 150 days.

₁God had not forgotten Noah and all the animals with him in the boat; he caused a wind to blow, and the water started going down. ₂The outlets of the water beneath the earth and the floodgates of the sky were closed. The rain stopped, ₃and the water gradually went down for 150 days. ₄On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range. ₅The water kept going down, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.

₆After forty days Noah opened a window ₇and sent out a raven. It did not come back, but kept flying around until the water was completely gone. ₈Meanwhile, Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had gone down, ₉but since the water still covered all the land, the dove did not find a place to alight. It flew back to the boat, and Noah reached out and took it in. ₁₀He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again. ₁₁It returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water had gone down. ₁₂Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.

₁₃When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked round, and saw that the ground was getting dry. ₁₄By the 27th day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

₁₅God said to Noah, ₁₆“Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives. ₁₇Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth.” ₁₈So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives. ₁₉All the animals and birds went out of the boat in groups of their own kind.

₂₀Noah built an altar to the LORD; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burnt them whole as a sacrifice on the altar. ₂₁The odour of the sacrifice pleased the LORD, and he said to himself, “Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time. ₂₂As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”

₁God blessed Noah and his sons and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth. ₂All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power. ₃Now you can eat them, as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food. ₄The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood. ₅If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life. ₆Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

₇“You must have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.”

₈God said to Noah and his sons, ₉“I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants, ₁₀and with all living beings — all birds and all animals — everything that came out of the boat with you. ₁₁With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth. ₁₂As a sign of this everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings, ₁₃I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world. ₁₄Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears, ₁₅I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings. ₁₆When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living beings on earth. ₁₇That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings.”