Genesis 8:6-13

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⁶After forty days^(A) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark ⁷and sent out a raven,^(B) and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.^(C) ⁸Then he sent out a dove^(D) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. ⁹But the dove could find nowhere to perch 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. ¹⁰He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹When 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.^(E) ¹²He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

¹³By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year,^(F) 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.

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Genesis 8:20-22

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²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord^(A) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean^(B) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings^(C) on it. ²¹The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma^(D) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground^(E) because of humans, even though^[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.^(F) And never again will I destroy^(G) all living creatures,^(H) as I have done.

²²“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,^(I)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,^(J)
day and night
will never cease.”^(K)

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Footnotes

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Psalm 116:10-17

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¹⁰I trusted^(A) in the Lord when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted”;^(B)
¹¹in my alarm I said,
“Everyone is a liar.”^(C)

¹²What shall I return to the Lord
for all his goodness^(D) to me?

¹³I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name^(E) of the Lord.
¹⁴I will fulfill my vows^(F) to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵Precious in the sight^(G) of the Lord
    is the death of his faithful servants.^(H)
¹⁶Truly I am your servant, Lord;^(I)
    I serve you just as my mother did;^(J)
    you have freed me from my chains.^(K)

¹⁷I will sacrifice a thank offering^(L) to you
and call on the name of the Lord.

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Mark 8:22-26

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Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida

²²They came to Bethsaida,^(A) and some people brought a blind man^(B) and begged Jesus to touch him. ²³He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit^(C) on the man’s eyes and put his hands on^(D) him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”

²⁴He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”

²⁵Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. ²⁶Jesus sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into^[a] the village.”

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