Parsha 2 of 54GEN
Noach
נח
Noah / Rest
October 25, 20252 Cheshvan 5786
Portion overview
The flood and God's covenant with Noah
Special Shabbat: rosh chodesh
Reading outline
Verse-level section headings for this Shabbat's Torah, Prophets, and Gospel readings.
Torah
GEN 6:9-11:32
- GEN 6:9His generations, etc.
- GEN 6:14The order, form, dimensions, and end of the ark.
- GEN 7:1Noah, with his family, and the living creatures, enter the ark, and the flood begins.
- GEN 7:17The increase and continuance of the flood for forty days.
- GEN 7:21All flesh is destroyed by it.
- GEN 7:24Its duration.
- GEN 8:1God remembers Noah, and assuages the waters.
- GEN 8:4The ark rests on Ararat.
- GEN 8:6Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove.
- GEN 8:13Noah, being commanded, goes forth from the ark.
- GEN 8:20He builds an altar, and offers sacrifice, which God accepts, and promises to curse the earth no more.
- GEN 9:1God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food.
- GEN 9:4Blood and murder are forbidden.
- GEN 9:8God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge.
- GEN 9:18Noah's family replenish the world.
- GEN 9:20Noah plants a vineyard.
- GEN 9:21Is drunken, and mocked by his son.
- GEN 9:25Curses Canaan.
- GEN 9:26Blesses Shem.
- GEN 9:27Prays for Japheth, and dies.
- GEN 10:1The generations of Noah.
- GEN 10:2Japheth.
- GEN 10:6Ham.
- GEN 10:8Nimrod the first monarch, and the descendants of Canaan.
- GEN 10:21The sons of Shem.
- GEN 11:1One language in the world.
- GEN 11:2The building of Babel.
- GEN 11:5It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed.
- GEN 11:10The generations of Shem.
- GEN 11:27The generations of Terah, the father of Abram.
- GEN 11:31Terah, with Abram and Lot, remove from Ur to Haran.