Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
8 ¶ O bless our God, ye peoples, and make the voice of his praise to be heard.
9 It is he who placed our soul into life and did not suffer our feet to slip.
10 For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast refined us as silver is refined.
11 Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction upon our loins.
12 Thou hast placed a man over our head; we went through fire and through water, but thou didst bring us out into abundance.
13 ¶ I will go into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows,
14 which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done unto my soul.
17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
19 But verily God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me.
7 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that are not clean, two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every substance that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 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.
8 Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that moves upon the earth,
9 there went in two by two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
12 And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 ¶ In that same day 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 into the ark,
14 they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.
16 And those that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and the LORD shut him in.
17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.
21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;
22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.
23 And every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, raising sails, they sailed close by Crete.
14 But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. {devastating cold north wind from Europe}
15 And when the ship was caught up by it and could not resist against the wind, the ship was taken by the wind and drifted.
16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat,
17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into Syrtis, {or the sandbanks} struck sail and so were driven.
18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
19 and the third day with our own hands we cast off the dead works of the ship.
20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then lost.
21 ¶ Then after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from Crete to have avoided this harm and loss.
22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any person’s life among you, but only of the ship.
23 For the angel of God stood by me this night, whose I am and whom I serve,
24 saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar; and, behold, God has given thee all those that sail with thee.
25 Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
26 However we must be cast upon a certain island.
27 And when the fourteenth night was come as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic sea, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country
28 and sounded and found it twenty fathoms; and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found it fifteen fathoms.
29 Then fearing lest we should fall upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day.
30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have waited and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
34 Therefore I pray you to take some food, for this is for your salvation and health, for there shall not one hair fall from the head of any of you.
35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
36 Then they were all of good cheer, and they also took some food.
37 And we were in all, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six souls.
38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the grain into the sea.
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