In a world filled with corruption and violence, God chose Noah, a righteous man, to build an ark that would save him, his family, and two of every kind of animal from a devastating flood. As Genesis records, Noah found favor with God and was obedient to His instructions, demonstrating his faith in the face of uncertainty. The book of Genesis details the construction of the ark and the events surrounding the flood, including God's command to Noah to enter the ark with his family and the animals. The story of the ark is also referenced in Hebrews, which highlights Noah's faith and obedience as an example to believers. Through this historic event, God demonstrated His judgment on sin and His mercy on those who trust in Him.
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By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah 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 fully dry. Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate; and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.