Thursday in Easter

5Verse 5. Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. 6Verse 6. And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7Verse 7. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them.” 8Verse 8. Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9Verse 9. This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. 10Verse 10. And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11Verse 11. Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence. 12Verse 12. And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways. 13Verse 13. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth. 14Verse 14. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15Verse 15. And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. 16Verse 16. You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks. 17Verse 17. And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish. 18Verse 18. But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19Verse 19. And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark — male and female — to keep them alive with you. 20Verse 20. Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive. 21Verse 21. You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.” 22Verse 22. So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

1Verse 1. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment. 2Verse 2. We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us. 3Verse 3. The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration, allowing him to visit his friends and receive their care. 4Verse 4. After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 5Verse 5. And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. 6Verse 6. There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board. 7Verse 7. After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone. 8Verse 8. After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea. 9Verse 9. By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them, 10Verse 10. “Men, I can see that our voyage will be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo, but to our own lives as well.” 11Verse 11. But contrary to Paul’s advice, the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and by the owner of the ship. 12Verse 12. Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, hoping that somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.