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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
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and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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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.
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After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
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Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
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He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
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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.
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By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
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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.”
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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
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All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
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She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”
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For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring.
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On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
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Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.
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The Three Visitors
The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
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Abraham Pleads for Sodom
When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
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that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
