There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.p>

There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.p>

There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.p>

God called<n id="1" /> the light &#8220;day&#8221; and the darkness<n id="2" /> &#8220;night.&#8221; There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.<n id="3" />p>

Even though she continued to speak<n id="1" /> to Joseph day after day, he did not respond<n id="2" /> to her invitation to have sex with her.<n id="3" />p>

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming.<n id="1" /> The Egyptians mourned<n id="2" /> for him seventy days.<n id="3" />p>

And the rain fell<n id="1" /> on the earth forty days and forty nights.p>

The waters prevailed over<n id="1" /> the earth for 150 days.p>

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth<n id="1" /> was dry.p>

Isaac<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since<n id="2" /> I am so old, I could die at any time.<n id="3" />

God called the expanse &#8220;sky.&#8221;<n id="1" /> There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.p>

The waters kept receding steadily<n id="1" /> from the earth, so that they<n id="2" /> had gone down<n id="3" /> by the end of the 150 days.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">At the end of forty days,<n id="1" /> Noah opened the window he had made in the ark<n id="2" />

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself.<n id="1" /> You always made me pay for every missing animal,<n id="2" /> whether it was taken by day or at night.

<p class="bodytext">God saw all that he had made &#8211; and it was very good!<n id="1" /> There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.p>

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy<n id="1" /> because on it he ceased all the work that he<n id="2" /> had been doing in creation.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

But Jacob<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;My lord knows that the children are young,<n id="2" /> and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young.<n id="3" /> If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

For in seven days<n id="1" /> I will cause it to rain<n id="2" /> on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.&#8221;p>