Genesis 7

• 1. The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
• 2. Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
• 3. and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
• 4. 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 creature I have made."
• 5. And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
• 6. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
• 7. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
• 8. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
• 9. male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
• 10. And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
• 11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month-on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
• 12. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
• 13. On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
• 14. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
• 15. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
• 16. The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
• 17. For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
• 18. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
• 19. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
• 20. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.,
• 21. Every living thing that moved on the earth perished-birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
• 22. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
• 23. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
• 24. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Matthew 6

• 1. "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
• 2. "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
• 3. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
• 4. so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• 5. "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
• 6. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• 7. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
• 8. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
• 9. "This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
• 10. your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
• 11. Give us today our daily bread.
• 12. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
• 13. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. '
• 14. For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• 15. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
• 16. "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
• 17. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,
• 18. so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• 19. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• 20. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
• 21. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
• 22. "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
• 23. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
• 24. "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
• 25. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
• 26. Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
• 27. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
• 28. "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
• 29. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
• 30. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
• 31. So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
• 32. For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
• 33. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
• 34. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Ezra 6

• 1. King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.
• 2. A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum:
• 3. In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be ninety feet high and ninety feet wide,
• 4. with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.
• 5. Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God.
• 6. Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you, their fellow officials of that province, stay away from there.
• 7. Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site.
• 8. Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God: The expenses of these men are to be fully paid out of the royal treasury, from the revenues of Trans-Euphrates, so that the work will not stop.
• 9. Whatever is needed-young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem-must be given them daily without fail,
• 10. so that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons.
• 11. Furthermore, I decree that if anyone changes this edict, a beam is to be pulled from his house and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it. And for this crime his house is to be made a pile of rubble.
• 12. May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.
• 13. Then, because of the decree King Darius had sent, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates carried it out with diligence.
• 14. So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.
• 15. The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
• 16. Then the people of Israel-the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles-celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.
• 17. For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel.
• 18. And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
• 19. On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles celebrated the Passover.
• 20. The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their brothers the priests and for themselves.
• 21. So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
• 22. For seven days they celebrated with joy the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because the LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria, so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.

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