The Flood of Noah is one of the most legendary stories in the Bible. The story instigates with the world being “corrupt in God’s sight” and “full of violence”. God tells a man named Noah to construct an ark for himself, his three sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. He moreover instructs Noah to fetch two of “all living creatures”, male and female, and care for all of them. (Noah did not need to walk for the animals approached him.) “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” (Gen. 6.22) After seven days, floodwaters arose onto the earth and wiped out all existing fauna and individuals not on the ark. For forty days and forty nights, it poured. The flood sustained for a hundred and fifty days. On the seventeenth day of the seventeenth month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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