Thoughts on my reread through the Bible # 4

Read Genesis 7&8 Psalms 4 & Matthew 4
How interesting that Genesis 7 includes the flood - the rain of which lasts forty days and forty nights while in Matthew 4 Jesus goes up to the wilderness and fasts forty and forty nights. Forty in biblical terms represents numerous things one of which is trials or testings. Moses also spends 40 days on Mount Sinai and the Israelites spend 40 years wandering the wilderness. Elijah spends forty days to journey to Mount Horeb, David reigned 40 years, and God gave Nineveh forty days to repent – in the book of Jonah.
All in all Noah and his family spends 1 year and tens days in the ark. No wonder the second thing he did was plant a vineyard. Do you know what the first thing he did was?
He built an alter and sent up a burnt offering to the Lord who vowed never again to curse the ground again for man's sake.

I love this verse in Psalms 4 - I will both lie down in peace, and sleep;
For You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Next up - Genesis 9&10. Psalms 5 & Matthew 5.