Study Desk

The Fourth Day God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

I have provided all kinds of fruit and grain for you to eat.

And I have given the green plants as food for everything else that breathes. These will be food for animals, both wild and tame, and for birds.

The Lord God said, "It isn't good for the man to live alone. I need to make a suitable partner for him."

So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names. None of these was the right kind of partner for the man.

So the Lord God said to the snake: "Because of what you have done, you will be the only animal to suffer this curse— For as long as you live, you will crawl on your stomach and eat dirt.

Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.

Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go for a walk." And when they were out in a field, Cain killed him.

Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.

If you try to farm the land, it won't produce anything for you. From now on, you'll be without a home, and you'll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place.

Then the Lord said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years."

Store up enough food both for yourself and for them.

Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.

Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.

Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.

For one hundred fifty days the water slowly went down.

Noah built an altar where he could offer sacrifices to the Lord . Then he offered on the altar one of each kind of animal and bird that could be used for a sacrifice.

The smell of the burning offering pleased God, and he said: Never again will I punish the earth for the sinful things its people do. All of them have evil thoughts from the time they are young, but I will never destroy everything that breathes, as I did this time.

and I have given them to you for food. From now on, you may eat them, as well as the green plants that you have always eaten.