Study Desk

So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.

So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

So God said to Noah, "This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth."

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers."

Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

When Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram's wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!"