- Gen 6:9-11:32
- Is 54:1-55:5
- Mat 24:36-46
Noach (Noaḥ) means “Rest.” In the days of Noaḥ, humanity was given rest from hard labour due to the curse of that fell on the ground after Adam and his wife sinned in the Garden of Eden.
| Berĕshith (Genesis) 6:9-11:32 |
The Creation (John 1:1–5 ; Hebrews 11:1–3)
Berĕshith Chapter 6
9 This is the account of Noaḥ. Noaḥ was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noaḥ walked with Alahym. 10 And Noaḥ had three sons: Shěm, Ḥam, and Yapheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of Alahym, and full of violence. 12 And Alahym looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
Preparing the Ark (Hebrews 11:7)
13 Then Alahym said to Noaḥ, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy them from the earth.
14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. 16 You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
17 And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish. 18 But I will establish My Covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
19 And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
22 So Noaḥ did everything precisely as Alahym had commanded him.
The Great Flood (2 Peter 3:1–7)
Berĕshith Chapter 7
1Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Noaḥ, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate; 3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth. 4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5 And Noaḥ did all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded him.
6 Now Noaḥ was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth. 7 And Noaḥ and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground 9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as Alahym had commanded Noaḥ.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noaḥ’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noaḥ entered the ark, along with his sons Shěm and Ḥam and Yapheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons— 14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. 15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. 16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as Alahym had commanded Noaḥ. Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shut him in.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits. 21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. 22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noaḥ and those with him in the ark remained.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
The Ark Rests on Ararat
Berĕshith Chapter 8
1But Alahym remembered Noaḥ and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And Alahym sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. 2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And 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.
Noaḥ Sends a Raven and a Dove
6 After forty days Noaḥ opened the window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
8 Then Noaḥ sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
10 Noaḥ waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noaḥ knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
12 And Noaḥ waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Exiting the Ark
13 In Noaḥ’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noaḥ removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
15 Then Alahym said to Noaḥ, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
18 So Noaḥ came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
Noah Builds an Altar
20 Then Noaḥ built an altar to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
22 As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night shall never cease.”
The Covenant of the Rainbow
Berĕshith Chapter 9
1And Alahym blessed Noaḥ and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things. 4 But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it. 5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
6 Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man his blood will be shed;
for in His own image
Alahym has made mankind.
7 But as for you,
be fruitful and multiply;
spread out across the earth
and multiply upon it.”
8 Then Alahym said to Noaḥ and his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I now establish My Covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark. 11 And I establish My Covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 And Alahym said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
14 Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember My Covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between Alahym and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
17 So Alahym said to Noaḥ, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
Noah’s Shame and Kanaan’s Curse
18 The sons of Noaḥ who came out of the ark were Shěm and Ḥam and Yapheth. And Ḥam was the father of Kena‛an. 19 These three were the sons of Noaḥ, and from them the whole earth was populated.
20 Now Noaḥ, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 And Ḥam, the father of Kena‛an, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
23 Then Shěm and Yapheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 When Noaḥ awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
“Cursed be Kena‛an!
A servant of servants
shall he be to his brothers.”
Shem’s Blessing and Noah’s Death
26 He also declared:
“Blessed be 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the Alahym of Shěm!
May Kena‛an be the servant of Shěm.
27 May Alahym expand the territory of Yapheth;
may he dwell in the tents of Shěm,
and may Kena‛an be his servant.”
28 After the flood, Noaḥ lived 350 years. 29 So Noaḥ lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
The Table of Nations (1 Chronicles 1:4–27)
Berĕshith Chapter 10
1This is the account of Noaḥ’s sons Shěm and Ḥam and Yapheth, who also had sons after the flood.
The Sons of Yapheth
2 The sons of Yapheth:
Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Toḡarmah.
3 The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Yawan:
Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Doḏanim. 5 From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
The Sons of Ḥam
6 The sons ofḤam:
Kush, and Mitsrayim, and Put, and Kena‛an..
7 The sons of Kush:
Seḇa, and Ḥawilah, and Saḇtah, and Ra‛mah, and Saḇteḵa.
And the sons of Ra‛mah:
Sheḇa and Deḏan.
8 Kush was the father of Nimroḏ, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty one before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH).” 10 His kingdom began in Baḇel, and Ereḵ, and Akkaḏ, and Kalněh, in the land of Shin‛ar. 11 From that land he went forth into Ashshur, where he built Ninewěh, Reḥoḇoth Ir, Kelaḥ, 12 and Resen, which is between Ninewěh and the great city of Kelaḥ.
13 Mitsrayim was the father of Luḏim, Anamim, Lehaḇim, and Naphtuḥim, 14 the Pathrusim and Kasluḥim (from whom the Philistines came), and the Kaphtorim. 15 And Kena‛an was the father of Tsiḏon his firstborn, and Ḥěth, 16 the Yeḇusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, 17 the Ḥiwwite, the Arqite, the Sinite, 18 the Arwaḏite, the Tsemarite, and the Ḥamathite.
Later the Kena‛anites clans were scattered, 19 and the borders of Kena‛anites extended from Tsiḏon toward Gerar as far as Azzah (Gaza), and then toward Seḏom, Amorah, Admah, and Tseḇoyim, as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ḥam according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
The Sons of Shěm
21 And sons were also born to Shěm, the older brother of Yapheth; Shěm was the forefather of all the sons of Ěḇer.
22 The sons of Shěm:
Ěylam, and Asshur, and Arpaḵshaḏ, and Luḏ, and Aram.
23 The sons of Aram:
Uts, and Ḥul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 Arpaḵshaḏ was the father of Shelaḥ, and Shelaḥ was the father of Ěḇer.
25 Two sons were born to Ěḇer: One was named Peleḡ, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Yoqtan.
26 And Yoqtan was the father of Almoḏaḏ, and Sheleph, and Ḥatsarmaweth, and Yeraḥ, 27 Haḏoram, and Uzal, and Diqlah, 28 Oḇal, and Aḇima’ěl, and Sheḇa, 29 Ophir, and Ḥawilah, and Yoḇaḇ. All these were sons of Yoqtan. 30 Their territory extended from Měysha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31 These are the sons of Shěm, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
32 All these are the clans of Shěm’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.
The Tower of Babel (Deuteronomy 32:8 ; Acts 2:1–13)
Berĕshith Chapter 11
1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. 2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shin‛ar1 and settled there.
3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
5 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. 6 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. 7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
8 So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it is called Babel2, for there 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 confused the language of the whole world, and from that place 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Genealogy from Shem to Abram (1 Chronicles 1:17–27)
10 This is the account of Shěm. Two years after the flood, when Shěm was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpaḵshaḏ. 11 And after he had become the father of Arpaḵshaḏ, Shěm lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arpaḵshaḏ was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelaḥ. 13 And after he had become the father of Shelaḥ, Arpaḵshaḏ lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 When Shelaḥ was 30 years old, he became the father of Ěḇer. 15 And after he had become the father of Ěḇer, Shelaḥ lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Ěḇer was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleḡ. 17 And after he had become the father of Peleḡ, Ěḇer lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleḡ was 30 years old, he became the father of Re‛u. 19 And after he had become the father of Re‛u, Peleḡ lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Re‛u was 32 years old, he became the father of Seruḡ. 21 And after he had become the father of Seruḡ, Re‛u lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor. 23 And after he had become the father of Naḥor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Naḥor was 29 years old, he became the father of Teraḥ. 25 And after he had become the father of Teraḥ, Naḥor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 When Teraḥ was 70 years old, he became the father of Aḇram, Naḥor, and Haran.
Teraḥ’s Descendants
27 This is the account of Teraḥ. Teraḥ became the father of Aḇram, Naḥor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 During his father Teraḥ’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur-kasdim.
29 And Aḇram and Naḥor took wives for themselves. Aḇram’s wife was named Sarai, and Naḥor’s wife was named Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milkah and Yiskah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 And Teraḥ took his son Aḇram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Aḇram, and they set out from Ur-kasdim for the land of Kena‛an. But when they arrived in Ḥaran, they settled there. 32 Teraḥ lived 205 years, and he died in Ḥaran.
| Yashayah (Isaiah) 54:1-55:5 |
Future Blessings for Zion
Yashayah (Isaiah) Chapter 54
1“Shout for joy, O barren woman,
who bears no children;
break forth in song and cry aloud,
you who have never travailed;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
than of her who has a husband,”
says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
2 “Enlarge the site of your tent,
stretch out the curtains of your dwellings,
do not hold back.
Lengthen your ropes
and drive your stakes in deep.
3 For you will spread out to the right and left;
your descendants will dispossess the nations
and inhabit the desolate cities.
4 Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame;
do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated.
For you will forget the shame of your youth
and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
5 For your husband is your Maker—
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of Hosts is His name—
the Set Apart One of Yasharal is your Redeemer;
He is called the Alahym of all the earth.
6 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has called you back,
like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit,
like the rejected wife of one’s youth,”
says your Alahym.
7 “For a brief moment I forsook you,
but with great compassion I will bring you back.
8 In a surge of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,”
says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Redeemer.
9 “For to Me this is like the waters of Noaḥ,
when I swore that the waters of Noaḥ
would never again cover the earth.
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
or rebuke you.
10 Though the mountains may be removed
and the hills may be shaken,
My loving commitment will not depart from you,
and My covenant of peace shalum will not be broken,”
says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, who has compassion on you.
11 “O afflicted city, lashed by storms,
without solace,
surely I will set your stones in antimony
and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 Then all your sons will be taught by 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
and great will be their prosperity.
14 In righteousness you will be established,
far from oppression,
for you will have no fear.
Terror will be far removed,
for it will not come near you.
15 If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me;
whoever assails you will fall before you.
16 Behold, I have created the craftsman
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its task;
and I have created the destroyer
to wreak havoc.
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
and their vindication is from Me,”
declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
Invitation to the Needy
Yashayah (Isaiah) Chapter 55
1“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you without money,
come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost!
2 Why spend money on that which is not bread,
and your labor on that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
3 Incline your ear and come to Me;
listen, so that your soul may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant—
My loving commitment promised to Daud.
4 Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations,
a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will call a nation you do not know,
and nations who do not know you will run to you.
For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahym, the Set Apart One of Yasharal,
has adorned you.”
| Mattithyahu (Matthew) 24:36-46 |
Readiness at Any Hour
36 No one knows about that day or hour, not even the messengers in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noaḥ, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Aḏam. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noaḥ entered the ark. 39 And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Aḏam. 40 Two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Master will come. 43 But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Aḏam will come at an hour you do not expect. 45 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
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