The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

By faith we understand that the

worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

The host

Praise Him, all His angels;
Praise Him, all His hosts!

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Breath

You send forth Your

Spirit, they are created;

And You renew the face of the ground.

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

“By His breath the heavens are cleared;
His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

General references

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

‘Was it not My hand which made all these things?’