The City Underwater

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat’s mountains.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; — read the full passage →

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? — read the full passage →

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided. — read the full passage →

The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.

The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. — read the full passage →

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened. — read the full passage →

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. — read the full passage →

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.