The Flood

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^(A)righteous before Me in this ^[a]time. ² You shall take ^[b]with you of every ^(B)clean animal ^[c]by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the ^[d]sky, ^[e]by sevens, male and female, to keep ^[f]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(C)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^(D)forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^(E)every living thing that I have made.” ^5 (F)Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

⁶ Now Noah was ^(G)six hundred years old when the flood of water ^[g]came upon the earth. ⁷ Then ^(H)Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. ^8 (I)Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, ⁹ there went into the ark to Noah ^[h]by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ It came about after ^(J)the seven days, that the water of the flood ^[i]came upon the earth. ¹¹ In the ^(K)six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all ^(L)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ^[j]floodgates of the sky were opened. ^12 (M)The rain ^[k]fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the very same day ^(N)Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, ¹⁴ they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ^[l]their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, ^[m]all sorts of birds. ¹⁵ So they went into the ark to Noah, ^(O)by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. ¹⁶ Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.

¹⁷ Then the flood ^[n]came upon the earth for ^(P)forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. ¹⁸ The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ^[o]floated on the ^[p]surface of the water. ¹⁹ The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ^[q]everywhere under the heavens were covered. ²⁰ The water prevailed fifteen ^[r]cubits higher, ^(Q)and the mountains were covered. ^21 (R)All flesh that ^[s]moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; ²² of all that was on the dry land, all ^(S)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. ²³ Thus He blotted out ^[t]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ^[u]sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^(T)Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. ^24 (U)The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

The Lord Implored to Defend the Psalmist against the Wicked.

A ^[a]Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord ^[b]concerning Cush, a Benjamite.

Jesus Presented at the Temple

²¹ And when ^(A)eight days had passed, ^[a]before His circumcision, ^(B)His name was then called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

^22 (C)And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord ²³ (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “^(D)Every firstborn male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”), ²⁴ and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the Law of the Lord, “^(E)A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

²⁵ And there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was ^(F)righteous and devout, ^(G)looking for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Spirit was upon him. ²⁶ And ^(H)it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not ^(I)see death before he had seen the Lord’s ^[b]Christ. ²⁷ And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, ^[c](J)to carry out for Him the custom of the Law, ²⁸ then he took Him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

³³ And His father and ^(N)mother were amazed at the things which were being said about Him. ³⁴ And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary ^(O)His mother, “Behold, this Child is appointed for ^(P)the fall and ^[e]rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed— ³⁵ and a sword will pierce even your own soul—to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

³⁶ And there was a ^(Q)prophetess, ^[f]Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of ^(R)the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in ^[g]years ^(S)and had lived with her husband seven years after her ^[h]marriage, ³⁷ and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with ^(T)fastings and prayers. ³⁸ At that very ^[i]moment she came up and began giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all those who were ^(U)looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.