8But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.H430H2142H5146H2416H929H8392H430H5674H7307H5674H5921H776H4325H79182The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.H4599H8415H699H8064H5534H1653H8064H36073So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,H4325H7725H776H1980H7725H7097H3967H2572H3117H4325H26374exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.H8392H5117H7637H2320H6240H7651H3117H2320H2022H7805Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.H4325H2637H1980H5704H6224H2320H6224H259H2320H7218H2022H72006After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boatH7093H705H3117H5146H6605H2474H8392H62137and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.H7971H6158H3318H3318H7725H4325H3001H7768He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.H7971H3123H7200H4325H7043H6440H1279But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.H3123H4672H4494H3709H7272H7725H8392H4325H6440H776H7971H3027H3947H935H839210After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again.H2342H312H7651H3117H3254H7971H3123H839211This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.H3123H935H6256H6153H6310H2132H5929H2965H5146H3045H4325H7043H77612He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.H3176H312H7651H3117H7971H3123H7725H3254H575013Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.H8337H3967H8141H7223H259H2320H4325H2717H776H5146H5493H4372H8392H7200H6440H127H271714Two more months went by, and at last the earth was dry!H8145H2320H7651H6242H3117H2320H776H300115Then God said to Noah,H430H1696H5146H55916"Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.H3318H8392H802H1121H1121H80217Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth."H3318H2416H1320H5775H929H7431H7430H776H8317H776H6509H7235H77618So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.H5146H3318H1121H802H1121H80219And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.H2416H7431H5775H3605H7430H776H4940H3318H839220Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.H5146H1129H4196H3068H3947H2889H929H2889H5775H5927H5930H419621And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.H3068H7306H5207H7381H3068H559H413H3820H3254H7043H127H120H5668H3336H120H3820H7451H5271H3254H5221H2416H621322As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."H776H3117H2233H7105H7120H2527H7019H2779H3117H3915H7673
9Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.H430H1288H5146H1121H559H6509H7235H4390H776 2All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.H4172H2844H2416H776H5775H8064H7430H127H1709H3220H3027H5414 3I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.H7431H2416H402H3418H6212H5414 4But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.H389H1320H5315H1818H398 5"And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person's life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.H389H1818H5315H1875H3027H2416H1875H3027H120H3027H376H251H1875H5315H120 6If anyone takes a human life, that person's life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in his own image.H8210H120H1818H120H1818H8210H6754H430H6213H120 7Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth."H6509H7235H8317H776H7235 8Then God told Noah and his sons,H430H559H5146H1121H559 9"I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,H6965H1285H2233H310 10and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.H2416H5315H5775H929H2416H776H3318H8392H2416H776 11Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth."H6965H1285H1320H3772H4325H3999H3999H7843H776 12Then God said, "I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come.H430H559H226H1285H589H5414H2416H5315H5769H1755 13I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.H5414H7198H6051H226H1285H776 14When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,H6049H6051H776H7198H7200H6051 15and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.H2142H1285H2416H5315H1320H4325H5750H3999H7843H1320 16When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth."H7198H6051H7200H2142H5769H1285H996H430H996H2416H5315H1320H776 17Then God said to Noah, "Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on earth."H430H559H5146H226H1285H6965H1320H776 18The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)H1121H5146H3318H8392H8035H2526H3315H2526H1931H1H3667 19From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth.H7969H1121H5146H776H5310 20After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.H5146H2490H376H127H5193H3754 21One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.H8354H3196H7937H1540H8432H168 22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.H2526H1H3667H7200H6172H1H5046H8147H251H2351 23Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.H8035H3315H3947H8071H7760H8147H7926H3212H322H3680H6172H1H6440H322H7200H1H6172 24When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done.H5146H3364H3196H3045H6996H1121H6213 25Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham: "May Canaan be cursed! May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives."H559H779H3667H5650H5650H251 26Then Noah said, "May the LORD, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant!H559H1288H3068H430H8035H3667H1961H5650 27May God expand the territory of Japheth! May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant."H430H6601H3315H7931H168H8035H3667H5650 28Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood.H5146H2421H310H3999H7969H3967H8141H2572H8141 29He lived 950 years, and then he died.H3117H5146H8672H3967H8141H2572H8141H4191
10This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.H8435H1121H5146H8035H2526H3315H1121H3205H310H3999 2The descendants of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.H1121H3315H1586H4031H4074H3120H8422H4902H8494 3The descendants of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.H1121H1586H813H7384H8425 4The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.H1121H3120H473H8659H3794H1721 5Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.H339H1471H6504H776H376H3956H4940H1471 6The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.H1121H2526H3568H4714H6316H3667 7The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.H1121H3568H5434H2341H5454H7484H5455H1121H7484H7614H1719 8Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.H3568H3205H5248H2490H1961H1368H776 9Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, "This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world."H1368H6718H6440H3068H3651H559H5248H1368H6718H6440H3068 10He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia, with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.H7225H4467H894H751H390H3641H776H8152 11From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,H776H3318H804H1129H5210H5892H7344H3625 12and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).H7449H5210H3625H1419H5892 13Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,H4714H3205H3866H6047H3853H5320 14Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.H6625H3695H3318H6430H3732 15Canaan's oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,H3667H3205H6721H1060H2845 16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,H2983H567H1622 17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,H2340H6208H5513 18Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out,H721H6786H2577H310H4940H3669H6327 19and the territory of Canaan extended from Sidon in the north to Gerar and Gaza in the south, and east as far as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, near Lasha.H1366H3669H6721H935H1642H5804H935H5467H6017H126H6636H3962 20These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.H1121H2526H4940H3956H776H1471 21Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.H8035H1H1121H5677H251H3315H1419H3205 22The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.H1121H8035H5867H804H775H3865H758 23The descendants of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.H1121H758H5780H2343H1666H4851 24Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.H775H3205H7974H7974H3205H5677 25Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means "division"), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother's name was Joktan.H5677H3205H8147H1121H8034H259H6389H3117H776H6385H251H8034H3355 26Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,H3355H3205H486H8026H2700H3392 27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,H1913H187H1853 28Obal, Abimael, Sheba,H5745H39H7614 29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan.H211H2341H3103H1121H3355 30The territory they occupied extended from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern mountains.H4186H4852H935H5611H2022H6924 31These were the descendants of Shem, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.H1121H8035H4940H3956H776H1471 32These are the clans that descended from Noah's sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.H4940H1121H5146H8435H1471H1471H6504H776H310H3999
11At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words.H776H259H8193H259H16972As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.H5265H6924H4672H1237H776H8152H34273They began saying to each other, "Let's make bricks and harden them with fire." (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)H559H376H7453H3051H3835H3843H8313H8316H3843H68H2564H1961H25634Then they said, "Come, let's build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world."H559H3051H1129H5892H4026H7218H8064H6213H8034H6327H6440H7765But the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.H3068H3381H7200H5892H4026H1121H120H11296"Look!" he said. "The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them!H3068H559H5971H259H259H8193H2490H6213H3808H3605H1219H2161H62137Come, let's go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won't be able to understand each other."H3051H3381H1101H8193H834H8085H376H7453H81938In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.H3068H6327H8033H6440H776H2308H1129H58929That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.H8034H7121H894H3068H1101H8193H776H6327H3068H6327H6440H77610This is the account of Shem's family. Two years after the great flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.H8435H8035H8035H3967H8141H1121H3205H775H8141H310H399911After the birth of Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.H8035H2421H310H3205H775H2568H3967H8141H3205H1121H132312When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.H775H2425H2568H7970H8141H3205H797413After the birth of Shelah, Arphaxad lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.H775H2421H310H3205H7974H702H3967H8141H7969H8141H3205H1121H132314When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.H7974H2425H7970H8141H3205H567715After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.H7974H2421H310H3205H5677H702H3967H8141H7969H8141H3205H1121H132316When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.H5677H2421H702H7970H8141H3205H638917After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived another 430 years and had other sons and daughters.H5677H2421H310H3205H6389H702H3967H8141H7970H8141H3205H1121H132318When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.H6389H2421H7970H8141H3205H746619After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived another 209 years and had other sons and daughters.H6389H2421H310H3205H7466H3967H8141H8672H8141H3205H1121H132320When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.H7466H2421H8147H7970H8141H3205H828621After the birth of Serug, Reu lived another 207 years and had other sons and daughters.H7466H2421H310H3205H8286H3967H8141H7651H8141H3205H1121H132322When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.H8286H2421H7970H8141H3205H515223After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived another 200 years and had other sons and daughters.H8286H2421H310H3205H5152H3967H8141H3205H1121H132324When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.H5152H2421H8672H6242H8141H3205H864625After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived another 119 years and had other sons and daughters.H5152H2421H310H3205H8646H3967H8141H6240H8672H8141H3205H1121H132326After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.H8646H2421H7657H8141H3205H87H5152H203927This is the account of Terah's family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.H8435H8646H8646H3205H87H5152H2039H2039H3205H387628But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living.H2039H4191H6440H1H8646H776H4138H218H377829Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor's brother Haran.)H87H5152H3947H802H8034H87H802H8297H8034H5152H802H4435H1323H2039H1H4435H1H325230But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no children.H8297H6135H205631One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.H8646H3947H87H1121H3876H1121H2039H1121H1121H8297H3618H1121H87H802H3318H218H3778H3212H776H3667H935H2771H342732Terah lived for 205 years and died while still in Haran.H3117H8646H3967H8141H2568H8141H8646H4191H2771
3[A psalm of David, regarding the time David fled from his son Absalom.] O LORD, I have so many enemies; so many are against me.H4210H1732H1272H6440H53H1121H3068H7231H6862H7227H6965 2So many are saying, "God will never rescue him!" InterludeH7227H559H5315H3444H430H5542 3But you, O LORD, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.H3068H4043H3519H7311H7218 4I cried out to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy mountain. InterludeH7121H3068H6963H6030H6944H2022H5542 5I lay down and slept, yet I woke up in safety, for the LORD was watching over me.H7901H3462H6974H3068H5564 6I am not afraid of ten thousand enemies who surround me on every side.H3372H7233H5971H7896H5439 7Arise, O LORD! Rescue me, my God! Slap all my enemies in the face! Shatter the teeth of the wicked!H6965H3068H3467H430H5221H341H3895H7665H8127H7563 8Victory comes from you, O LORD. May you bless your people. InterludeH3444H3068H1293H5971H5542
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