Study Desk

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals."

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."

And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

"Come," they said, "let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth."

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared."

But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

For all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width-for I will give it to you."