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Today, we are pleased to present selections from Chapters 6 and 7 from the Book of Genesis: Chapter 6 recounts how GOD commanded virtuous Noah (vegetarian) to build an ark, gather His family, preserve pairs of every living creature, and store food to survive the coming flood. Chapter 7 details the beginning of the flood and Noah entering the ark as the LORD commanded. The First Book of Moses, called Genesis Chapter 6 “[…] These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in His generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with GOD. And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And the Earth was corrupt before GOD, and the Earth was filled with violence. And GOD saw the Earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the Earth. And GOD said to Noah: ‘The end of all flesh is come before me; for the Earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the Earth. Make Thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shall Thou make the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is how Thou shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A light shall Thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shall Thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shall Thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shall Thou make it. And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the Earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under Heaven; everything that is in the Earth shall perish. But I will establish My covenant with Thee; and Thou shall come into the ark, Thou, and Thy sons, and Thy wife, and Thy sons’ wives with Thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall Thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with Thee; they shall be male and female. Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to Thee, to keep them alive. And take Thou to Thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to Thee; and it shall be for food for Thee, and for them.’ Thus did Noah; according to all that GOD commanded Him, so did He.” Chapter 7 “And the LORD said to Noah: ‘Come Thou and all Thy house into the ark; for Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean creature Thou shall take to Thee seven and seven, each with his mate; and of the creatures that are not clean two and two, each with his mate; of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the Earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the Earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the Earth.’ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded Him. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the Earth. And Noah went in, and His sons, and His wife, and His sons’ wives with Him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean creatures, and of creatures that are not clean, and of fowls, and of everything that creeps upon the ground, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as GOD commanded Noah. And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the Earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the Earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of His sons with them, into the ark; they, and every creature after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the Earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.”
