Bible: 2 Corinthians 2:1-4; 7:5-16; 11:28-29

2:1 So 1  I made up my own mind 2  not to pay you another painful visit. 3  2:2 For if I make you sad, who would be left to make me glad 4  but the one I caused to be sad? 2:3 And I wrote this very thing to you, 5  so that when I came 6  I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours. 2:4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you. 7 

7:5 And Noah did all 1  that the Lord commanded him.

7:6 Noah 2  was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed 3  the earth. 7:7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sonswives because 4  of the floodwaters. 7:8 Pairs 5  of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, 6  just as God had commanded him. 7  7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 8 

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep 9  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens 10  were opened. 7:12 And the rain fell 11  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

7:13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sonsthree wives. 12  7:14 They entered, 13  along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. 14  7:15 Pairs 15  of all creatures 16  that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 7:16 Those that entered were male and female, 17  just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

11:28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, 1  while his father Terah was still alive. 2  11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, 3  and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; 4  she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
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