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Noah and The Great Flood
By Peace | June 18, 2008
Noah had lived to a very great age when the flood of water came upon the earth. And God said to Noah,”Come into the ark, you and all who are with you. Seven days from now, I will cause it to rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And every living things I have made, I will destroy from the face of the earth.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
He entered the ark with Shem, Ham and Japheth, his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons. Birds and beasts and creeping things of every kind came to Noah and went into the ark, two by two, the male and the female, as God had commanded.
Then the Lord shut Noah in the ark, and the water of the flood were upon the earth. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven opened. The rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The water swelled and lifted the ark above the earth.
The flood spread and the water continued to rise upon the earth. And the ark floated upon the face of the water. The water rose higher and higher upon the earth until all the high mountains under heaven were covered. Forty-five feet more did the water rise above the high mountains and they were indeed covered.
Every living thing that moved upon the earth died — birds, cattle, beasts, every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, every man and every living thing which was upon the face of the ground were destroyed. Only Noah and those who were with him remained alive.
God remembered Noah and every living creature with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth and to quiet the water.
