Daily Reading for Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

Reading 1, Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10

⁵ Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long.

⁶ Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart.

⁷ And Yahweh said, 'I shall rid the surface of the earth of the human beings whom I created -- human and animal, the creeping things and the birds of heaven -- for I regret having made them.'

⁸ But Noah won Yahweh's favour.

¹ Yahweh said to Noah, 'Go aboard the ark, you and all your household, for you alone of your contemporaries do I see before me as an upright man.

² Of every clean animal you must take seven pairs, a male and its female; of the unclean animals you must take one pair, a male and its female

³ (and of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, a male and its female), to preserve their species throughout the earth.

⁴ For in seven days' time I shall make it rain on earth for forty days and forty nights, and I shall wipe every creature I have made off the face of the earth.'

⁵ Noah did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.

¹⁰ Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on earth.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 29:1-2, 3-4, 8, 9-10

¹ [Psalm Of David] Give Yahweh his due, sons of God, give Yahweh his due of glory and strength,

² give Yahweh the glory due to his name, adore Yahweh in the splendour of holiness.

³ Yahweh's voice over the waters, the God of glory thunders; Yahweh over countless waters,

⁴ Yahweh's voice in power, Yahweh's voice in splendour;

⁸ Yahweh's voice convulses the desert, Yahweh convulses the desert of Kadesh,

⁹ Yahweh's voice convulses terebinths, strips forests bare. In his palace all cry, 'Glory!'

¹⁰ Yahweh was enthroned for the flood, Yahweh is enthroned as king for ever.

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