Bible Reading for January 6 and 7
World English Bible
Jan.
6
Genesis
6
Gen
6:1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the
ground, and daughters were born to them,
Gen
6:2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and
they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
Gen
6:3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever,
because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty
years."
Gen
6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after
that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children
to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Gen
6:5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
Gen
6:6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him in his heart.
Gen
6:7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from
the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things,
and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
Gen
6:8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
Gen
6:9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a
righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked
with God.
Gen
6:10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gen
6:11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.
Gen
6:12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh
had corrupted their way on the earth.
Gen
6:13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before
me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I
will destroy them with the earth.
Gen
6:14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship,
and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
Gen
6:15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be
three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty
cubits.
Gen
6:16 You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a
cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You
shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Gen
6:17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to
destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky.
Everything that is in the earth will die.
Gen
6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into
the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Gen
6:19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of
every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be
male and female.
Gen
6:20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of
every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
Gen
6:21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to
yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
Gen
6:22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he
did.
Jan.
7
Genesis
7
Gen
7:1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into
the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this
generation.
Gen
7:2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the
male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the
male and his female.
Gen
7:3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female,
to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Gen
7:4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty
days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will
destroy from the surface of the ground."
Gen
7:5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
Gen
7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on
the earth.
Gen
7:7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons'
wives, because of the waters of the flood.
Gen
7:8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything
that creeps on the ground
Gen
7:9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God
commanded Noah.
Gen
7:10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood
came on the earth.
Gen
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the
fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows
were opened.
Gen
7:12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Gen
7:13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of
Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them,
entered into the ship;
Gen
7:14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after
their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its
kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Gen
7:15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the
breath of life in them.
Gen
7:16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God
commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.
Gen
7:17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased,
and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Gen
7:18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and
the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Gen
7:19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high
mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Gen
7:20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains
were covered.
Gen
7:21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds,
livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,
and every man.
Gen
7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of
all that was on the dry land, died.
Gen
7:23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the
ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the
sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and
those who were with him in the ship.
Gen
7:24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
Jan. 6
Matthew
3
Mat 3:1
In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness
of Judea, saying,
Mat 3:2
"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!"
Mat 3:3
For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The
voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the
Lord. Make his paths straight."
Mat 3:4
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather
belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Mat 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around
the Jordan went out to him.
Mat 3:6
They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mat 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his
baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned
you to flee from the wrath to come?
Mat 3:8
Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!
Mat 3:9
Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I
tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these
stones.
Mat
3:10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees.
Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut
down, and cast into the fire.
Mat
3:11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes
after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He
will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
Mat
3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly
cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn,
but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
Mat
3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be
baptized by him.
Mat
3:14 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be
baptized by you, and you come to me?"
Mat
3:15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this
is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he
allowed him.
Mat
3:16 Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water:
and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God
descending as a dove, and coming on him.
Mat
3:17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my
beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
Jan.
7
Matthew
4
Mat 4:1
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted by the devil.
Mat 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry
afterward.
Mat 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God,
command that these stones become bread."
Mat 4:4
But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.' "
Mat 4:5
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the
pinnacle of the temple,
Mat 4:6
and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself
down, for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you.'
and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don't dash
your foot against a stone.' "
Mat 4:7
Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test
the Lord, your God.' "
Mat 4:8
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and
showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
Mat 4:9
He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you
will fall down and worship me."
Mat
4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is
written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve
him only.' "
Mat
4:11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served
him.
Mat
4:12 Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew
into Galilee.
Mat
4:13 Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by
the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
Mat
4:14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying,
Mat
4:15 "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the
sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
Mat
4:16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who
sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
Mat
4:17 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent!
For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
Mat
4:18 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who
is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea;
for they were fishermen.
Mat
4:19 He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you
fishers for men."
Mat
4:20 They immediately left their nets and followed him.
Mat
4:21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son
of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their
father, mending their nets. He called them.
Mat
4:22 They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed
him.
Mat
4:23 Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and
every sickness among the people.
Mat
4:24 The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to
him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments,
possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed
them.
Mat
4:25 Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and
from beyond the Jordan followed him.
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engineering. Scientists know that this rotating wonder, and the
assembly to which it is attached, is a tiny but powerful molecular
engine. One of nature’s smallest, and yet most powerful, motors rotates
at over 200 revolutions per second, driven by incredible torque.
Researchers have also long been puzzled by what enables the flagellum to
come to a stop, and even reverse its rotation. In recent years they
have discovered that it does so using a “clutch.” The bacterium can
disconnect from the flagellum by releasing a protein that disengages the
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