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Noah and family and animals enter Ark on same day as flood begins. 7:16b–17a Flood lasts 40 days and nights. 7:18–21 Waters rise, all creatures destroyed. 7:22–23 All creatures destroyed. 7:24–8:5 Flood lasts 150 days; God remembers Noah, fountains and floodgates closed, waters recede; Month 7 day 17, Ark grounds on mountains of Ararat.
The structure of the Ark (and the chronology of the flood) is homologous with the Jewish Temple and with Temple worship. [9] Accordingly, Noah's instructions are given to him by God (Genesis 6:14–16): the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high (approximately 134×22×13 m or 440×72×43 ft). [10]
After the flood, God commands Noah and his sons to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth". The story of Noah in the Pentateuch is similar to the flood narrative in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, composed around 1800 BC, where a hero builds an ark to survive a divinely sent flood. Scholars suggest that the biblical account was ...
The story continues with the first crime committed by mankind: Cain murdering his brother Abel. Genealogy of Cain and genealogy of Seth are also given. Mankindʻs corruption was great on Earth. God felt regret for making humans, but there was a man called Noah. He and his family obediently build an ark to guard themselves and animals from a ...
the Genesis flood narrative in which the world is destroyed and re-created; God's covenant with Noah, in which God promises never again to destroy the world by water; Noah the husbandman (the invention of wine), his drunkenness, his three sons, and the Curse of Canaan; The toledot of the sons of Noah (10:1–11:9)
When Noah was 600 years old, the flood came, and that same day, Noah, his family and the beasts went into the ark, and God shut him in. The rains fell 40 days and 40 nights, the waters swelled 15 cubits above the highest mountains, and all flesh with the merest breath of life died, except for Noah and those with him on the ark.
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Noah's Ark is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Peter Spier, first published by Doubleday in 1977. The text includes Spier's translation of "The Flood" by Jacobus Revius , a 17th-century poem telling the Bible story of Noah's Ark .