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2 JUL 2018 · 1 Then God blessed Noah and his
sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the earth.
2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon
all the beasts of the earth and all the
birds of the air, upon every creature that
moves along the ground, and upon all
the fish of the sea; they are given into
your hands.
3 Everything that lives and moves will be
food for you. Just as I gave you the
green plants, I now give you everything.
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its
lifeblood still in it.
5 And for your lifeblood I will surely
demand an accounting. I will demand an
accounting from every animal. And from
each man, too, I will demand an
accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by
man shall his blood be shed; for in the
image of God has God made man.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in
number; multiply on the earth and
increase upon it."
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons
with him:
9 "I now establish my covenant with you
and with your descendants after you
10 and with every living creature that was
with you-the birds, the livestock and all
the wild animals, all those that came out
of the ark with you-every living creature
on earth.
11 I establish my covenant with you:
Never again will all life be cut off by the
waters of a flood; never again will there
be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 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:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds,
and it will be the sign of the covenant
between me and the earth.
14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth
and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant between
me and you and all living creatures of
every kind. Never again will the waters
become a flood to destroy all life.
16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the
clouds, I will see it and remember the
everlasting covenant between God and
all living creatures of every kind on the
earth."
17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign
of the covenant I have established
between me and all life on the earth."
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the
ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.
(Ham was the father of Canaan.)
19 These were the three sons of Noah,
and from them came the people who
were scattered over the earth.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to
plant a vineyard.
21 When he drank some of its wine, he
became drunk and lay uncovered inside
his tent.
22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his
father's nakedness and told his two
brothers outside.
23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment
and laid it across their shoulders; then
they walked in backward and covered
their father's nakedness. Their faces
were turned the other way so that they
would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and
found out what his youngest son had
done to him,
25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The
lowest of slaves will he be to his
brothers."
26 He also said, "Blessed be the Lord ,
the God of Shem! May Canaan be the
slave of Shem.
27 May God extend the territory of
Japheth ; may Japheth live in the tents
of Shem, and may Canaan be his
slave."
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and
then he died.
2 JUL 2018 · 1 The proverbs of Solomon son of
David, king of Israel:
2 for attaining wisdom and discipline; for
understanding words of insight;
3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent
life, doing what is right and just and fair;
4 for giving prudence to the simple,
knowledge and discretion to the young-
5 let the wise listen and add to their
learning, and let the discerning get
guidance-
6 for understanding proverbs and
parables, the sayings and riddles of the
wise.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge, but fools despise wisdom
and discipline. Exhortations to Embrace
Wisdom
8 Listen, my son, to your father's
instruction and do not forsake your
mother's teaching.
9 They will be a garland to grace your
head and a chain to adorn your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not
give in to them.
11 If they say, "Come along with us; let's
lie in wait for someone's blood, let's
waylay some harmless soul;
12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave,
and whole, like those who go down to
the pit;
13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder;
14 throw in your lot with us, and we will
share a common purse"-
15my son, do not go along with them, do
not set foot on their paths;
16 for their feet rush into sin, they are
swift to shed blood.
17 How useless to spread a net in full
view of all the birds!
18 These men lie in wait for their own
blood; they waylay only themselves!
19 Such is the end of all who go after illgotten
gain; it takes away the lives of
those who get it.
20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she
raises her voice in the public squares;
21 at the head of the noisy streets she
cries out, in the gateways of the city she
makes her speech:
22 "How long will you simple ones love
your simple ways? How long will
mockers delight in mockery and fools
hate knowledge?
23 If you had responded to my rebuke, I
would have poured out my heart to you
and made my thoughts known to you.
24 But since you rejected me when I
called and no one gave heed when I
stretched out my hand,
25 since you ignored all my advice and
would not accept my rebuke,
26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I
will mock when calamity overtakes you-
27 when calamity overtakes you like a
storm, when disaster sweeps over you
like a whirlwind, when distress and
trouble overwhelm you.
28 "Then they will call to me but I will not
answer; they will look for me but will not
find me.
29 Since they hated knowledge and did
not choose to fear the Lord ,
30 since they would not accept my advice
and spurned my rebuke,
31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and
be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
32 For the waywardness of the simple will
kill them, and the complacency of fools
will destroy them;
33 but whoever listens to me will live in
safety and be at ease, without fear of
harm."
2 JUL 2018 · PSALM 2
1 Why do the nations conspire and the
peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together against
the Lord and against his Anointed One.
3 "Let us break their chains," they say,
"and throw off their fetters."
4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
5 Then he rebukes them in his anger and
terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 "I have installed my King on Zion, my
holy hill."
7 I will proclaim the decree of the Lord :
He said to me, "You are my Son ; today
I have become your Father.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations
your inheritance, the ends of the earth
your possession.
9 You will rule them with an iron scepter ;
you will dash them to pieces like
pottery."
10 Therefore, you kings, be wise; be
warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice
with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you
be destroyed in your way, for his wrath
can flare up in a moment. Blessed are
all who take refuge in him.
2 JUL 2018 · PSALM 1
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk
in the counsel of the wicked or stand in
the way of sinners or sit in the seat of
mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and
night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of
water, which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in
the judgment, nor sinners in the
assembly of the righteous.
6 For the Lord watches over the way of
the righteous, but the way of the wicked
will perish.
2 JUL 2018 · 1 But God remembered Noah and all
the wild animals and the livestock that
were with him in the ark, and he sent a
wind over the earth, and the waters
receded.
2 Now the springs of the deep and the
floodgates of the heavens had been
closed, and the rain had stopped falling
from the sky.
3 The water receded steadily from the
earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty
days the water had gone down,
4 and on the seventeenth day of the
seventh month the ark came to rest on
the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters continued to recede until
the tenth month, and on the first day of
the tenth month the tops of the
mountains became visible.
6 After forty days Noah opened the
window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven, and it kept flying
back and forth until the water had dried
up from the earth.
8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the
water had receded from the surface of
the ground.
9 But the dove could find no place to set
its feet because there was water over all
the surface of the earth; so it returned to
Noah in the ark. He reached out his
hand and took the dove and brought it
back to himself in the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and again
sent out the dove from the ark.
11 When the dove returned to him in the
evening, there in its beak was a freshly
plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that
the water had receded from the earth.
12 He waited seven more days and sent
the dove out again, but this time it did
not return to him.
13 By the first day of the first month of
Noah's six hundred and first year, the
water had dried up from the earth. Noah
then removed the covering from the ark
and saw that the surface of the ground
was dry.
14 By the twenty-seventh day of the
second month the earth was completely
dry.
15 Then God said to Noah,
16 "Come out of the ark, you and your
wife and your sons and their wives.
17 Bring out every kind of living creature
that is with you-the birds, the animals,
and all the creatures that move along
the ground-so they can multiply on the
earth and be fruitful and increase in
number upon it."
18 So Noah came out, together with his
sons and his wife and his sons' wives.
19 All the animals and all the creatures
that move along the ground and all the
birds-everything that moves on the
earth-came out of the ark, one kind after
another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord
and, taking some of all the clean
animals and clean birds, he sacrificed
burnt offerings on it.
21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma
and said in his heart: "Never again will I
curse the ground because of man, even
though every inclination of his heart is
evil from childhood. And never again will
I destroy all living creatures, as I have
done.
22 "As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night will
never cease."
2 JUL 2018 · 1 The Lord then said to Noah, "Go into
the ark, you and your whole family,
because I have found you righteous in
this generation.
2 Take with you seven of every kind of
clean animal, a male and its mate, and
two of every kind of unclean animal, a
male and its mate,
3 and also seven of every kind of bird,
male and female, to keep their various
kinds alive throughout the earth.
4 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."
5 And Noah did all that the Lord
commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when
the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife
and his sons' wives entered the ark to
escape the waters of the flood.
8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of
birds and of all creatures that move
along the ground,
9 male and female, came to Noah and
entered the ark, as God had
commanded Noah.
10 And after the seven days the
floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
on the seventeenth day of the second
month-on that day all the springs of the
great deep burst forth, and the
floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 And rain fell on the earth forty days
and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah and his sons,
Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with
his wife and the wives of his three sons,
entered the ark.
14 They had with them every wild animal
according to its kind, all livestock
according to their kinds, every creature
that moves along the ground according
to its kind and every bird according to its
kind, everything with wings.
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the
breath of life in them came to Noah and
entered the ark.
16 The animals going in were male and
female of every living thing, as God had
commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut
him in.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming
on the earth, and as the waters
increased they lifted the ark high above
the earth.
18 The waters rose and increased greatly
on the earth, and the ark floated on the
surface of the water.
19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all
the high mountains under the entire
heavens were covered.
20 The waters rose and covered the
mountains to a depth of more than
twenty feet. ,
21 Every living thing that moved on the
earth perished-birds, livestock, wild
animals, all the creatures that swarm
over the earth, and all mankind.
22 Everything on dry land that had the
breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 Every living thing on the face of the
earth was wiped out; men and animals
and the creatures that move along the
ground and the birds of the air were
wiped from the earth. Only Noah was
left, and those with him in the ark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a
hundred and fifty days.
2 JUL 2018 · 1 In those days John the Baptist came,
preaching in the Desert of Judea
2 and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is near."
3 This is he who was spoken of through
the prophet Isaiah: "A voice of one
calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way
for the Lord, make straight paths for
him.' "
4 John's clothes were made of camel's
hair, and he had a leather belt around
his waist. His food was locusts and wild
honey.
5 People went out to him from Jerusalem
and all Judea and the whole region of
the Jordan.
6 Confessing their sins, they were
baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7 But when he saw many of the
Pharisees and Sadducees coming to
where he was baptizing, he said to
them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned
you to flee from the coming wrath?
8 Produce fruit in keeping with
repentance.
9 And do not think you can say to
yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our
father.' I tell you that out of these stones
God can raise up children for Abraham.
10 The ax is already at the root of the
trees, and every tree that does not
produce good fruit will be cut down and
thrown into the fire.
11 "I baptize you with water for
repentance. But after me will come one
who is more powerful than I, whose
sandals I am not fit to carry. He will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with
fire.
12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and
he will clear his threshing floor,
gathering his wheat into the barn and
burning up the chaff with unquenchable
fire."
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the
Jordan to be baptized by John.
14 But John tried to deter him, saying, "I
need to be baptized by you, and do you
come to me?"
15 Jesus replied, "Let it be so now; it is
proper for us to do this to fulfill all
righteousness." Then John consented.
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he
went up out of the water. At that
moment heaven was opened, and he
saw the Spirit of God descending like a
dove and lighting on him.
17 And a voice from heaven said, "This is
my Son, whom I love; with him I am well
pleased."
2 JUL 2018 · 1 When men began to increase in
number on the earth and daughters
were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters
of men were beautiful, and they married
any of them they chose.
3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not
contend with man forever, for he is
mortal ; his days will be a hundred and
twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in
those days-and also afterward-when the
sons of God went to the daughters of
men and had children by them. They
were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5 The Lord saw how great man's
wickedness on the earth had become,
and that every inclination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil all the time.
6 The Lord was grieved that he had
made man on the earth, and his heart
was filled with pain.
7 So the Lord said, "I will wipe mankind,
whom I have created, from the face of
the earth-men and animals, and
creatures that move along the ground,
and birds of the air-for I am grieved that
I have made them."
8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the
Lord .
9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was
a righteous man, blameless among the
people of his time, and he walked with
God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and
Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's
sight and was full of violence.
12 God saw how corrupt the earth had
become, for all the people on earth had
corrupted their ways.
13 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.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress
wood; make rooms in it and coat it with
pitch inside and out.
15 This is how you are to build it: The ark
is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and
45 feet high.
16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to
within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in
the side of the ark and make lower,
middle and upper decks.
17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the
earth to destroy all life under the
heavens, every creature that has the
breath of life in it. Everything on earth
will perish.
18 But I will establish my covenant with
you, and you will enter the ark-you and
your sons and your wife and your sons'
wives with you.
19 You are to bring into the ark two of all
living creatures, male and female, to
keep them alive with you.
20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind
of animal and of every kind of creature
that moves along the ground will come
to you to be kept alive.
21 You are to take every kind of food that
is to be eaten and store it away as food
for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God
commanded him.
1 JUL 2018 · 1 This is the written account of Adam's
line. When God created man, he made
him in the likeness of God.
2 He created them male and female and
blessed them. And when they were
created, he called them "man. "
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he
had a son in his own likeness, in his
own image; and he named him Seth.
4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800
years and had other sons and daughters.
5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and
then he died.
6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he
became the father of Enosh.
7 And after he became the father of
Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had
other sons and daughters.
8 Altogether, Seth lived 912 years, and
then he died.
9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he
became the father of Kenan.
10 And after he became the father of
Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had
other sons and daughters.
11 Altogether, Enosh lived 905 years, and
then he died.
12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he
became the father of Mahalalel.
13 And after he became the father of
Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and
had other sons and daughters.
14 Altogether, Kenan lived 910 years, and
then he died.
15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he
became the father of Jared.
16 And after he became the father of
Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and
had other sons and daughters.
17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived 895 years,
and then he died.
18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he
became the father of Enoch.
19 And after he became the father of
Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had
other sons and daughters.
20 Altogether, Jared lived 962 years, and
then he died.
21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he
became the father of Methuselah.
22 And after he became the father of
Methuselah, Enoch walked with God
300 years and had other sons and
daughters.
23 Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years.
24 Enoch walked with God; then he was
no more, because God took him away.
25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years,
he became the father of Lamech.
26 And after he became the father of
Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years
and had other sons and daughters.
27 Altogether, Methuselah lived 969
years, and then he died.
28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he
had a son.
29 He named him Noah and said, "He will
comfort us in the labor and painful toil of
our hands caused by the ground the
Lord has cursed."
30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived
595 years and had other sons and
daughters.
31 Altogether, Lamech lived 777 years,
and then he died.
32 After Noah was 500 years old, he
became the father of Shem, Ham and
Japheth.
1 JUL 2018 · 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in
Judea, during the time of King Herod,
Magi from the east came to Jerusalem
2 and asked, "Where is the one who has
been born king of the Jews? We saw his
star in the east and have come to
worship him."
3 When King Herod heard this he was
disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.
4 When he had called together all the
people's chief priests and teachers of
the law, he asked them where the Christ
was to be born.
5 "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied,
"for this is what the prophet has written:
6 " 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of
Judah, are by no means least among
the rulers of Judah; for out of you will
come a ruler who will be the shepherd of
my people Israel.' "
7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly
and found out from them the exact time
the star had appeared.
8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said,
"Go and make a careful search for the
child. As soon as you find him, report to
me, so that I too may go and worship
him."
9 After they had heard the king, they
went on their way, and the star they had
seen in the east went ahead of them
until it stopped over the place where the
child was.
10 When they saw the star, they were
overjoyed.
11 On coming to the house, they saw the
child with his mother Mary, and they
bowed down and worshiped him. Then
they opened their treasures and
presented him with gifts of gold and of
incense and of myrrh.
12 And having been warned in a dream
not to go back to Herod, they returned to
their country by another route.
13 When they had gone, an angel of the
Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.
"Get up," he said, "take the child and his
mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there
until I tell you, for Herod is going to
search for the child to kill him."
14 So he got up, took the child and his
mother during the night and left for
Egypt,
15 where he stayed until the death of
Herod. And so was fulfilled what the
Lord had said through the prophet: "Out
of Egypt I called my son."
16 When Herod realized that he had been
outwitted by the Magi, he was furious,
and he gave orders to kill all the boys in
Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two
years old and under, in accordance with
the time he had learned from the Magi.
17 Then what was said through the
prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18 "A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping
and great mourning, Rachel weeping for
her children and refusing to be
comforted, because they are no more."
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord
appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt
20 and said, "Get up, take the child and
his mother and go to the land of Israel,
for those who were trying to take the
child's life are dead."
21 So he got up, took the child and his
mother and went to the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus was
reigning in Judea in place of his father
Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having
been warned in a dream, he withdrew to
the district of Galilee,
23 and he went and lived in a town called
Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said
through the prophets: "He will be called
a Nazarene."
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