And I invite you to turn in your Bibles to the first book of your Bible and follow along as I read Genesis 8, 20 through 917.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird

and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor,

the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man,

for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Neither will I ever again destroy every living creatures I have done.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. and and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea into your hand they are delivered.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.

And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that

is its blood. For your life blood, I will surely require a reckoning. Of every beast I will require it and of man. Of every man's brother

I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

And you, be fruitful and multiply. Bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply in it.

Then God said to Noah and to His sons with Him,

behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the arc. I establish my covenant with you that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood and never

again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.

And God said, this is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living

creature that is with you for all future generations.

I set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the

bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant which is between me and

you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

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