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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 14 , 14 Jan 2026   
      
   1)   
   Genesis 8, Genesis 9   
      
   Genesis 8   
   The Flood Recedes   
   1 God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the livestock that were   
   with him in the ark.   
   So God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the water receded.   
   2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed,   
   and the rain from the heavens was restrained.   
   3 The water receded steadily from the earth,   
   and after the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.   
   4 The ark rested in the seventh month,   
   on the seventeenth day of the month,   
   on the mountains of Ararat.   
   5 The water continually decreased until the tenth month.   
   In the tenth month, on the first day of the month,   
   the tops of the mountains became visible.   
   6 Then at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the   
   ark which he had made,   
   7 and he sent forth a raven, which went to and fro until the waters   
   were dried up on the earth.   
   8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had subsided   
   from the face of the ground.   
   9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, so she   
   returned to him into the ark,   
    for the waters were on the surface of all the earth.   
    Then he put forth his hand, and took her,   
   and brought her into the ark to himself.   
   10 He waited yet another seven days, and again   
   he sent out the dove from the ark.   
   11 The dove came to him in the evening, and in her mouth there was a freshly   
   plucked olive leaf.   
   So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.   
   12 He waited another seven days and sent out the dove again,   
   but it did not return to him again.   
   13 So in the six hundred and first year, in the first month,   
   the first day of the month,   
     the waters were dried up from the earth;   
     and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked,   
    and saw the surface of the ground was dry.   
   14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month,   
   the earth was dry.   
   15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,   
   16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons'   
   wives with you.   
   17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you,   
   birds and animals,   
      and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,   
      so that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful   
      and multiply on the earth."   
   18 So Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went out.   
   19 Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything   
      that moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.   
   20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal   
       and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.   
   21 The Lord smelled a soothing aroma; and the Lord said in His heart,   
      "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the inclination   
      of man's   
       heart is evil from his youth,   
       nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.   
   22  While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,   
   summer and winter,and day and night will not cease."   
      
   Genesis 8   
   [1] And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that   
   was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the   
   waters asswaged;   
   [2] The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped,   
   and the rain from heaven was restrained;   
   [3] And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the   
   end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.   
   [4] And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the   
   month, upon the mountains of Ararat.   
   [5] And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth   
   month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.   
   [6] And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the   
   window of the ark which he had made:   
   [7] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters   
   were dried up from off the earth.   
   [8] Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated   
   from off the face of the ground;   
   [9] But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned   
   unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:   
   then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into   
   the ark.   
   [10] And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove   
   out of the ark;   
   [11] And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was   
   an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off   
   the earth.   
   [12] And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which   
   returned not again unto him any more.   
   [13] And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first   
   month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the   
   earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold,   
   the face of the ground was dry.   
   [14] And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month,   
   was the earth dried.   
   [15] And God spake unto Noah, saying,   
   [16] Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons'   
   wives with thee.   
   [17] Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all   
   flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that   
   creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be   
   fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.   
   [18] And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives   
   with him:   
   [19] Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever   
   creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.   
   [20] And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast,   
   and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.   
   [21] And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I   
   will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination   
   of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more   
   every thing living, as I have done.   
   [22] While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and   
   summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.   
      
   Genesis 9   
   The Noahic Covenant   
   1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,   
    "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.   
   2 Every beast of the earth and every bird of the sky and all   
    that moves on the earth and all the fish of the sea will fear you   
    and be terrified of you. They are given into your hand.   
   3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you.   
     I give you everything, just as I gave you the green plant.   
   4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.   
   5 But for your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning;   
     from every animal will I require it;   
     of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life,   
      
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