Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18
8:6-18
9:8-13
Since
the story of the ark takes up 3-1/2 chapters of Genesis, it is excerpted for
the vigil. If you listen carefully you’ll notice that God instructs Noah to
take seven pairs of all clean animals, and one pair of the unclean animals, into
the ark, along with Noah, his wife, three sons, and three daughters-in-law.
Everything not on the ark was blotted out from the face of the earth (7:23).
When the water stops gushing, Noah sends out first a raven then a dove; after
three attempts, Noah is satisfied that the earth is dry enough to exit the ark.
The family and the animals are sent out with the same instruction given in Gen.
1: “Be fruitful and multiply”. And God establishes the first covenant with Noah
and all flesh, that never again will all the earth be destroyed by flood.
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