Study Desk

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. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."

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 creature I have made."

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

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

"Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.

As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase 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:

They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

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

Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you."

He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.