Daily
Feast
(Second
Day)
Genesis 4:7 – 7:12
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
The First Book of Moses
Genesis
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7 If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you
don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to
rule over it.” 8 Cain said to Abel, his
brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up
against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
9 Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your
brother?”
He
said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me
from the ground. 11 Now you are cursed
because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s
blood from your hand. 12 From now on,
when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a
fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”
13 Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is
greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, you
have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from
your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds
me will kill me.”
15 Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays
Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for
Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.
16 Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the
land of Nod, east of Eden. 17 Cain knew
his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named
the city after the name of his son, Enoch. 18
Irad was born to Enoch. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael
became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech took two wives: the name of
the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father
of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. 21 His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the
father of all who handle the harp and pipe. 22
Zillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting
instrument of bronze and iron. Tubal Cain’s sister was Naamah. 23 Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah
and Zillah, hear my voice.
You
wives of Lamech, listen to my speech,
for
I have slain a man for wounding me,
a
young man for bruising me.
24 If Cain will be avenged seven times,
truly
Lamech seventy-seven times.”
25 Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a
son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of
Abel, for Cain killed him.” 26 A son was
also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on
Yahweh’s name.
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1 This is the book of the generations of Adam.
In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness. 2 He created them male and female, and blessed
them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam. 3 Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and
became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him
Seth. 4 The days of Adam after he became
the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other
sons and daughters. 5 All the days that
Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
6 Seth lived one hundred five years, then
became the father of Enosh. 7 Seth lived
after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the
father of other sons and daughters. 8
All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
9 Enosh lived ninety years, and became the
father of Kenan. 10 Enosh lived after he
became the father of Kenan eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father
of other sons and daughters. 11 All of
the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
12 Kenan lived seventy years, then became the
father of Mahalalel. 13 Kenan lived
after he became the father of Mahalalel eight hundred forty years, and became
the father of other sons and daughters 14
and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
15 Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, then became
the father of Jared. 16 Mahalalel lived
after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and became the
father of other sons and daughters. 17
All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then
he died.
18 Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then
became the father of Enoch. 19 Jared
lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the
father of other sons and daughters. 20
All of the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty-two years, then he
died.
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the
father of Methuselah. 22 After
Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became
the father of more sons and daughters. 23
All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not found,
for God took him.
25 Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven
years, then became the father of Lamech. 26
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred
eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters. 27 All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty-nine years, then he died.
28 Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years,
then became the father of a son. 29 He
named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil
of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.” 30 Lamech lived after he became the father of
Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and
daughters. 31 All the days of Lamech
were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
32 Noah was five hundred years old, then Noah
became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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1 When men began to multiply on the surface of
the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2
God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any
that they wanted for themselves as wives. 3
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he
also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days,
and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had
children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart
was continually only evil. 6 Yahweh was
sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
7 Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom
I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping
things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
9 This is the history of the generations of
Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah
walked with God. 10 Noah became the
father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence. 12 God
saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their
way on the earth.
13 God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all
flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will
destroy them and the earth. 14 Make a
ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside
and outside with pitch. 15 This is how
you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its
width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you
shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its
side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels. 17 I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on
this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky.
Everything that is in the earth will die. 18
But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship,
you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall
bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall
be male and female. 20 Of the birds
after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of
the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them
alive. 21 Take with you some of all food
that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and
for them.” 22 Thus Noah did. He did all
that God commanded him.
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1 Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your
household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this
generation. 2 You shall take seven pairs
of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that
are not clean, take two, the male and his female. 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and
seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain
on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing
that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded
him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood
of waters came on the earth. 7 Noah went
into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the
floodwaters. 8 Clean animals, unclean
animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and
female, as God commanded Noah. 10 After
the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in
the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the
fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened. 12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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