5th January

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.⁴ But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.⁵ And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.⁶ Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.⁷ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.⁸ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;¹⁰ And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.¹¹ And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.¹² And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:¹³ I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.¹⁴ And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:¹⁵ And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.¹⁷ And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.¹⁸ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.¹⁹ These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.²⁰ And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:²¹ And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.²⁶ And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.²⁷ God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.²⁸ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.² The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.³ And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.⁴ And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.⁵ By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.⁶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.⁷ And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.¹¹ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,¹² And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.¹³ And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,¹⁴ And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.¹⁵ And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,¹⁶ And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,¹⁷ And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,¹⁸ And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.²¹ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.²² The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.²³ And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.²⁴ And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.²⁶ And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,²⁷ And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,²⁸ And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,²⁹ And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

¹ In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?² For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.³ If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?⁴ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.⁵ The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.⁷ For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

¹ Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.² They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.³ The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:⁴ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?⁵ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.⁷ Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.⁸ The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

¹ How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?³ Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;⁴ Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.⁵ But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.⁶ I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

¹ Judge not, that ye be not judged.² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.³ And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?⁵ Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.⁶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:⁸ For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.⁹ Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?¹⁰ Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?¹¹ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?¹² Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.¹³ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:¹⁴ Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.¹⁵ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.¹⁶ Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?¹⁷ Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.¹⁸ A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.¹⁹ Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.²⁰ Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.²¹ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?²³ And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:²⁵ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.²⁶ And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:²⁷ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:²⁹ For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.