February 18, 2025, Tuesday of the sixth week in ordinary time.

A reading from the book of Genesis.

When the Lord saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart

conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his

heart was grieved.

So the Lord said,

I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created.

And not only the men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the

air,

for I am sorry that I made them.

But Noah found favor with the Lord.

Then the Lord said to Noah,

Go into the ark, you and all your household,

for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just.

Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate.

And of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate.

Likewise, of every clean bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female.

And of all the unclean birds, one pair, a male and a female.

Thus, you will keep their issue alive over all the earth.

Seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. And so I will

wipe out, from the surface of the earth, every moving creature that I have made. Noah did just as the

Lord had commanded him. As soon as the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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