Bible: Dan. 1:1; 2:1; 7:1; 8:1; 9:1, 10

Daniel Finds Favor in Babylon

1:1 In the third 1  year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar 2  of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem 3  and laid it under siege. 4 

2:1 The heavens and the earth 1  were completed with everything that was in them. 2 

7:1 The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation. 1 

8:1 But God remembered 1  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over 2  the earth and the waters receded.

God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth. 1 

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