The Voice

Reading Genesis 11 for Friday, January 13, 2017. People build effectively and God hinders their progress with much more difficult communication, and the genealogy of Shem to Abram is listed. 

Reading Genesis 10 for Thursday, January 12, 2017. Noah’s sons have more sons. 

Reading Genesis 9 for Wednesday, January 11, 2017. God’s first command is to not eat meat with it’s lifeblood still in it, and to hold men and animals accountable for shedding men’s blood, then He formally makes a covenant not to repeat the wiping out all of the Earth’s inhabitants with a flood like He did. Then Noah becomes drunk with wine made from his vineyard’s harvest and subsequently passes out naked in his tent, and curses his youngest son when he finds out he looked at him in that state and blesses his older son’s for respectfully covering his nakedness. 

Reading Genesis 8 for Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Noah sends out birds to test whether or not it is safe to go out of the ark, but even after it seems promising, he waits for God’s command to go out. Also, God makes a covenant not to destroy all life on Earth in this way again. 

Reading Genesis 7 for Monday, January 9th, 2017. Noah and his family took shelter in the ark, along with at least two of each of the land-dwelling animals. Water covered the Earth up to 20 feet higher than the highest mountain peak. 

Reading Genesis 6 for Saturday, January 7th, 2017. The Earth got so evil and bad that God regretted creating it. He decided to make a plan to wipe out all of it’s inhabitants aside from Noah, his wife, his sons, his son’s wives, and two of each living creature that breathes air. 

Reading Genesis 5 for Friday, January 6th, 2017. The genealogy of Adam to Noah and his sons is recorded in this chapter. 

Reading Genesis 4 for Thursday, January 5th, 2017. Jealous Cain kills his brother Abel and gets cursed, and then has some children, who start making musical instruments and tools. Adam and Eve then have a new son, Seth. 

Reading Genesis 3 for Wednesday, January 4th, 2017. Eve and Adam do the wrong thing, so farming and childbirth become harder than planned. 

Reading Genesis 2 for Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017. Adam and Eve are naked and without shame, and they name all of the creatures on the Earth.