Genesis 8:1-22
8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
8:3 The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
8:6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
8:8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
8:11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
8:14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
8:15 Then God spoke to Noah and said,
8:16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
8:17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”
8:18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
8:19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
8:20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
8:22 “While the earth continues to exist,
planting time and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
and day and night will not cease.”
Genesis 14:3-4
14:3 These last five kings
joined forces
in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
14:4 For twelve years
they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year
they rebelled.
Genesis 23:8
23:8 Then he said to them, “If you agree
that I may bury my dead,
then hear me out.
Ask
Ephron the son of Zohar
Exodus 32:1-8
The Sin of the Golden Calf
32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!”
32:2 So Aaron said to them, “Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
32:3 So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
32:4 He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow will be a feast to the Lord.”
32:6 So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
32:7 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
32:8 They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them – they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
Numbers 15:39
15:39 You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the
Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow
after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.
Numbers 25:2
25:2 These women invited
the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Amos 5:25-26
5:25 You did not bring me sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family of Israel.
5:26 You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king,
and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,
Acts 7:39-43
7:39 Our
ancestors
were unwilling to obey
him, but pushed him aside
and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
7:40 saying to Aaron, ‘
Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt – we do not know what has happened to him!’
7:41 At
that time
they made an idol in the form of a calf,
brought
a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing
in the works of their hands.
7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over
to worship the host
of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘
It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?
7:43 But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.’