#universal flood

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Photography by the-way-we-were (2026):

4th Portion: Bereshit (Genesis) 8:15 - 9:7

15And God spoke to Noah saying:

16"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17Every living thing that is with you of all flesh, of fowl, and of animals and of all the creeping things that creep on the earth, bring out with you, and they shall swarm upon the earth, and they shall be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."

18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

19Every beast, every creeping thing, and all fowl, everything that moves upon the earth, according to their families they went forth from the ark.

20And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and he took of all the clean animals and of all the clean fowl and brought up burnt offerings on the altar.

21And the Lord smelled the pleasant aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, "I will no longer curse the earth because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, and I will no longer smite all living things as I have done.

22So long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Chapter 9

1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and He said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

2And your fear and your dread shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the fowl of the heaven; upon everything that creeps upon the ground and upon all the fish of the sea, [for] they have been given into your hand[s].

3Every moving thing that lives shall be yours to eat; like the green vegetation, I have given you everything.

4But, flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.

5But your blood, of your souls, I will demand [an account]; from the hand of every beast I will demand it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of each man, his brother, I will demand the soul of man.

6Whoever sheds the blood of man through man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God He made man.