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The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre, displayed in the Fine Arts Museum of Nantes (Musée d'Arts de Nantes). The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth. [1]
Noah's Ark (1846), by the American folk painter Edward Hicks. Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [Notes 1] is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [1]
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 Gilgamesh flood tablet 11 (XI) contains additional story material besides the flood. The flood story was included because in it, the flood hero Utnapishtim is granted immortality by the gods and that fits the immortality theme of the epic. The main point seems to be that Utnapishtim was granted eternal life in unique, never-to-be-repeated ...
Among the 175 myths he analyzed were a Hindu myth speaking of an alignment of the five planets at the time, and a Chinese story linking the flood to the end of the reign of Empress Nu Wa. Fourteen flood myths refer to a full solar eclipse. [27] According to Masse these indications point to the date May 10, 2807 BC. [28]
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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. [16] The second reading ends here. [ 17 ] The Deluge (illustration by Gustave Doré from the 1865 La Sainte Bible ) The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851 painting by John Everett Millais )