Monday in Season after Pentecost

29Verse 29. When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes, 30Verse 30. returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?” 31Verse 31. Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood. 32Verse 32. They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.” 33Verse 33. His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!” 34Verse 34. Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days. 35Verse 35. All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No, ” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him. 36Verse 36. Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

11Verse 11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12Verse 12. And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13Verse 13. On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons — 14Verse 14. they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. 15Verse 15. They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. 16Verse 16. And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. 17Verse 17. For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. 18Verse 18. So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19Verse 19. Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. 20Verse 20. The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits. 21Verse 21. And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished — birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. 22Verse 22. Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23Verse 23. And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed — man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained. 24Verse 24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. 1Verse 1. But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. 2Verse 2. The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3Verse 3. The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. 4Verse 4. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5Verse 5. And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.