Daily Reading

“The chief cities of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. From that land he went forth to Asshur, where he built Nineveh.” —Genesis 10:10-11 Canaan, Noah’s grandson, was cursed by his drunken grandfather. From Canaan descended Babylon and Assyria, the nations that would later destroy the … Read More

“As the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and recall the everlasting covenant that I have established between God and all living beings — all mortal creatures that are on earth.” —Genesis 9:16 God said to Noah what He had said to Adam: “Be fertile and multiply; abound on earth and subdue … Read More

“Then God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark.” —Genesis 8:1 As in the first creation (1:1), the wind swept “over the earth. The waters began to subside” (8:1), and Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had gone down. The Spirit renewed … Read More

“The Lord wiped out every living thing on earth: man and cattle, the creeping things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.” — Genesis 7:23 The flood lasted for one year and ten days and destroyed everything but … Read More

“He said to Noah: ‘I have decided to put an end to all mortals on earth; the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I will destroy them and all life on earth.’ ” —Genesis 6:13 “The sons of heaven had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons” (6:4). “When … Read More

“When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.” —Genesis 5:1 “Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.” —Genesis 5:3 Adam’s descendants lived to be almost a thousand years old. Death was not reigning with … Read More

“If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.” —Genesis 4:24 With sin comes death and a cycle of more sin and more death (Rm 6:23). The first death in the Bible was the murder of Abel by his own brother, Cain. Lamech escalated the conflict, and death began to reign (Rm 5:17). Prayer: Father, through … Read More

“So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” —Genesis 3:6 Mankind sinned by trying to be a god instead of being in God’s likeness. With sin, we brought into the world death, pain, suffering, lust, shame, and … Read More

“The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.” —Genesis 2:7 The human person is both made in the image of God and formed from the earth. We are spiritual and material, co-creators and created. We … Read More

“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.” —Genesis 1:1-2 During the Babylonian exile after the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.C.), the Israelites were shocked that their entire lives had fallen apart. They … Read More