The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.  . . . In the six hundredth year of Noah's life . . . all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.  . . . On that very day Noah and his sons . . . together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.  . ...  Read More

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.  . . . Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.  . . . So ma...  Read More

When human beings began to increase in number on the earth . . . the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever . . . The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that He had made humans beings on the earth, and His heart was deeply troubled. ...  Read More

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' " "You will no...  Read More

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be ...  Read More

Though You have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once more. I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you -- I whom you have deliver...  Read More