Then Noah built an altar to the LORD…
And the LORD was pleased…
“I will never again curse the ground
because of the human race,
even though everything they think or imagine
is bent toward evil from childhood.
I will never again destroy all living things.
As long as the earth remains,
there will be planting and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night.
What this means is
that those who become Christians
become new persons.
They are not the same anymore,
for the old life is gone.
A new life has begun!
…on the seventeenth day of the second month,
all the underground waters erupted from the earth,
and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
That very day Noah had gone into the boat
with his wife and his sons—
and their wives.
With them in the boat were pairs
of every kind of animal…
A male and a female of each kind entered,
just as God had commanded Noah.
Then the LORD closed the door behind them.
“Why are you so angry?”
The LORD asked Cain.
“Why do you look so dejected?
You will be accepted if you do what is right.
But if you refuse to do what is right,
then watch out!
Sin is crouching at the door,
eager to control you.
But you must subdue it and be its master.”
The LORD God placed the man
in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
but the LORD God warned him,
“You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
If you eat its fruit,
you are sure to die.”
The serpent was the shrewdest
of all the wild animals the LORD God had made.
One day he asked the woman,
“Did God really say you must not eat the fruit
from any of the trees in the garden?”
Then the LORD God said,
“It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep.
While the man slept,
the LORD God took out one of the man’s ribs
and closed up the opening.
The the LORD God made a woman from the rib,
and he brought her to the man.
So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Then God blessed them…
Then God looked over all he had made,
and he saw that it was very good!
…
So the creation of the heavens and the earth
and everything in them was completed.
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation,
so he rested from all his work.
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy,
because it was the day when he rested
from all his work of creation.
Then God said…
And that is what happened.
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And that is what happened.
Genesis 1:6-7, 9, 11, 14-15, 24
