Old Testament

Genesis 9-10

^9:1God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ^9:2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. ^9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you. ^9:4But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat. ^9:5I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. ^9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man. ^9:7Be fruitful, and multiply. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."

^9:8God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, ^9:9"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, ^9:10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth. ^9:11I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." ^9:12God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ^9:13I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ^9:14It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, ^9:15and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ^9:16The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." ^9:17God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."

^9:18The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan. ^9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

^9:20Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. ^9:21He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. ^9:22Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. ^9:23Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness. ^9:24Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. ^9:25He said,

 "Cursed be Canaan;

 A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

^9:26He said,

 "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem;

 Let Canaan be his servant.

 ^9:27God enlarge Japheth,

 Let him dwell in the tents of Shem;

 Let Canaan be his servant."

^9:28Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood. ^9:29All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

^10:1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

^10:2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. ^10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ^10:4The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ^10:5Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

^10:6The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. ^10:7The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ^10:8Cush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. ^10:9He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh." ^10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ^10:11Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, ^10:12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city). ^10:13Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, ^10:14Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

^10:15Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth, ^10:16the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite, ^10:17the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, ^10:18the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. ^10:19The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha. ^10:20These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

^10:21To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born. ^10:22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. ^10:23The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. ^10:24Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber. ^10:25To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan. ^10:26Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ^10:27Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ^10:28Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ^10:29Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. ^10:30Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east. ^10:31These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

^10:32These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

New Testament

Matthew 7

^7:1"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. ^7:2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. ^7:3Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? ^7:4Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? ^7:5You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

^7:6"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

^7:7"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. ^7:8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. ^7:9Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? ^7:10Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? ^7:11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! ^7:12Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

^7:13"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. ^7:14How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

^7:15"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. ^7:16By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ^7:17Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. ^7:18A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit. ^7:19Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. ^7:20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. ^7:21Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ^7:22Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' ^7:23Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

^7:24"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.^7:25The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. ^7:26Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. ^7:27The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell -- and great was its fall."

^7:28It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, ^7:29for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.

^8:1When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. ^8:2Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."