Torah Reading for October 20, 2025 - Genesis 8:1-22 - Yahuah Remembers and Restores

📜 TORAH READING FOR OCTOBER 20, 2025

According to the Scriptures (את Cepher)

Sunset to Sunset: October 19, 2025 – October 20, 2025

📖 PRIMARY READING — BERESHIYTH (GENESIS) 8:1–22

1. And Elohiym remembered Noach, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and Elohiym made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged;

2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

3. And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

5. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

6. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the window of the ark which he had made:

7. And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

8. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

10. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

11. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

13. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noach removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

14. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

15. And Elohiym spoke unto Noach, saying,

16. Go forth of the ark, you, and your woman, and your sons, and your sons' women with you.

17. Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

18. And Noach went forth, and his sons, and his woman, and his sons' women with him:

19. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creeps upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

20. And Noach built an altar unto Yahuah; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21. And Yahuah smelled a sweet savor; and Yahuah said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.

22. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

📜 SUPPORTING READING — TEHILLIYM (PSALM) 40:1–5

1. I waited patiently for Yahuah; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3. And He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our Elohiym: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahuah.

4. Blessed is that man that makes Yahuah his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5. Many, O Yahuah Elohai, are Your wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto You.

📘 MITZVOTH FOCUS

Give thanks and build an altar of gratitude.
(Compare Genesis 8:20–21 and Deuteronomy 8:10.)

The mitzvah revealed here is thanksgiving — offering back to Yahuah the first of what remains after deliverance.

Noach's first act after the flood was not to explore, build, or plant — it was to worship.

Gratitude is the foundation of righteousness; thanksgiving sanctifies the blessings of restoration.

🌅 THEME FOR TODAY

"Yahuah Remembers and Restores."

Even when judgment covers the land, Yahuah does not forget the righteous.

The dove with the olive leaf reminds us that His mercy always finds a way to reach us — a token of peace after the storm, and a sign that life will sprout again where death once reigned.

As He remembered Noach, He will remember you — to lift you above the flood, and to set your feet on solid ground again.

📜 SUPPORTIVE READINGS

Prophets: Yeshayahu 54:8–10 — "With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you… My covenant of peace shall not be removed."

Brit Chadashah: Philippians 4:6–7 — "In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto Elohiym."

Cepher Additions: Yovheliym 6:1–6 — the covenant of the rainbow and the law of seedtime and harvest established forever.

🙏 CLOSING PRAYER & REFLECTION

O Yahuah Elohiym,
You are faithful to remember those who wait upon You.

When the floods rise and the world trembles, You lift up those who walk in obedience.

Teach us to wait in patience, to trust in Your timing, and to give You praise when deliverance comes.

Let our lives be as Noach's altar — a continual offering of thanksgiving before Your throne.

Restore peace to our hearts and renew the covenant of mercy within us.

B'shem Yahusha Ha'Mashiach — Amein.

May this word of Yahuah be a blessing to your soul.

From The FUNDamental Qahal of the Most High