# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1983_S422
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants
bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it
according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening,
and there was morning—the third day. And God said. ~Let there he lights in the
expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs
to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the
sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the
greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also
made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God
saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was moming—the
fourth day. And God said. “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let
birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” So God created the great
creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water
teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the
earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. And God
said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock,
creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its
kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the
livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the
ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said,
“Let us make man in our image. in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all
the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own
image. in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the
earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over
every living creature that moves on the ground.” Then God said, “I give you every
seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with
seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the
birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—every thing that has
the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. God sa all
that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was
morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their
vast artay. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing: so on
the seventh day he rested from all his work. (Gen. 1:1—2:2)

P Let us pray.

Almighty God, you most wonderfully created and yet more wonderfulty restored
the goodness of human nature. Grant that in your mercy we may be conformed to

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12. The members of the congregation extinguish their candles. A few lights
in the nave may be turned on.

13. The congregation sings “Awake, My Heart, with Gladness," Hymn
128, stanzas 1, 5, and 6. At the conclusion of the hymn, the assisting
minister goes to a lectern, while the pastor savs:

P In this most holy night our Savior, Christ, the Lord, broke the power of
death and by his resurrection brought life and salvation to all creation. Let us
praise the Lord, for he truly keeps his Word. The sun of righteousness has
dawned upon us who have sat in darkness and in the shadow of death.

14. The assisting minister reads one or more of the following portions of Hol\
Scripture: Exodus 14:10—15:1 is always read. Each reading may be followed by a
brief silence for reflection on God's Word. After each appointed collect an
appropriate hymn stanza may be sune. The congregation may sit throughout or
ma} stand or kneel for each collect.

A Inthe beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was
formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of
God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there
was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the
darkness. God called the light “day” and the darkness he called “night.” And
there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. And God said, “Let
there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” So God
made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water
above it. And it was so. God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening,
and there was morming—the second day. And God said, “Let the water under
the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God
called the dry ground “land.” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God
saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation:
seed-bearing plants and trees on the Land that bear fruit with seed in it, according

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the image of him who came to share our humanity. your Son Jesus Christ. our
Lord.

@ Amen

A The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole
family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with
you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of
every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate. and also seven of every
kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout
the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days
and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living
creature I have made.” And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. In
the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second
month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the
floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days
and forty nights. On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth, together with his wife and the s of his three sons, entered the
ark. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all
livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the
ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,
everything with wings. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in
them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male
and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the
Lord shut him in. For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as
the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters
rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated onthe surface of
the water. After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had
dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had
receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find no place to
set its feet because there was water over all the surface of the earth: so it
returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and
brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again
sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the
evening, there inits beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew
that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and
sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. By the first
day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had
dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and
saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the
second month the earth was completely dry. Then God said to Noah,
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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