Noah then built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.’ Freidenreich, David M. (2003). "The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon's Tafsīr of the Torah". Jewish Quarterly Review. 93 (3): 353–395. doi: 10.1353/jqr.2003.0009. ISSN 1553-0604. S2CID 170764204. McEntire, Mark (2008). Struggling with God: An Introduction to the Pentateuch. Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780881461015.

Marvin Meyer; Willis Barnstone (June 30, 2009). "The Reality of the Rulers (The Hypostasis of the Archons)". The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala . Retrieved 2022-02-06. Batto, Bernard Frank (1992). Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664253530. Morton, Glenn (17 February 2001). "The Geologic Column and its Implications for the Flood". TalkOrigins Archive . Retrieved 2 November 2010. Morton Not a Geologist In the modern era, individuals and organizations have sought to reconstruct Noah's ark using the dimensions specified in the Bible. [65] Johan's Ark was completed in 2012 to this end, while the Ark Encounter was finished in 2016. [66] See also [ edit ]

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During the Victorian age, with the new science of archaeology, Europeans began excavations throughout the Middle East. Uncovering vast libraries of cuneiform tablets, they discovered an early version of this story in the Sumerian/Mesopotamian/Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 1300-1000 BCE). Gilgamesh was a legendary king of the Sumerian city of Uruk. Gilgamesh sought the secret of immortality. Through his travels, he narrated the story of a great flood. One of the gods, Enlil, sent the flood to punish humans for their “great noise” (or, their evilness). The Epic of Gilgamesh is notable for its similar details of not only a flood story, but with the “cubits,” the use of “pitch” (tar) to seal the structure, and even sending out the birds. Parkinson, William (January–February 2004). "Questioning 'Flood Geology': Decisive New Evidence to End an Old Debate". NCSE Reports. 24 (1) . Retrieved 2 November 2010. The word ‘ark’, used of the boat Noah built, is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary with several meanings: to refer to a large wooden bin or hutch for storing food (Northern English dialect) or as the name for the wooden coffer containing the tables of the law, which God gave to Moses (i.e., the Ark of the Covenant). Young, Davis A. (March 1995). The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extrabiblical Evidence. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Pub Co. p.340. ISBN 978-0-8028-0719-9.

When it started raining, Noah brought his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives onto the ark. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. After coming to rest on a mountain, Noah sent out a dove to find dry land but it returned. Seven days later, he sent out another dove and it returned with an olive leaf, signaling that it was safe to go onto land. Douglas, J. D.; Tenney, Merrill C., eds. (2011). Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary. revised by Moisés Silva (Reviseded.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan. ISBN 978-0310229834. God promised never to destroy the earth with a flood again and placed a rainbow in the sky as a sign of his promise. Read Matthew Henry's commentary of Genesis in the text below: Noah is Instructed to Build an Ark: Genesis 6 Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition. Harvard University Press. pp. 624. ISBN 978-0-674-02339-0. Wenham, Gordon (1994). "The Coherence of the Flood Narrative". In Hess, Richard S.; Tsumura, David Toshio (eds.). I Studied Inscriptions From Before the Flood (Google Books). Sources for Biblical and Theological Study. Vol.4. Eisenbrauns. p.480. ISBN 978-0-931464-88-1.The flood was increasing for forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out of the reach of God's judgments. God's hand will find out all his enemies, ( Psalms 21:8). When the flood thus increased, Noah's ark was lifted up, and the waters which broke down everything else bore up the ark. That which to unbelievers betokens death unto death, to the faithful betokens life unto life. The Aftermath of the Flood Verses 21-24 The Baháʼí Faith regards the Ark and the Flood as symbolic. [45] In Baháʼí belief, only Noah's followers were spiritually alive, preserved in the "ark" of his teachings, as others were spiritually dead. [46] [47] The Baháʼí scripture Kitáb-i-Íqán endorses the Islamic belief that Noah had numerous companions on the ark, either 40 or 72, as well as his family, and that he taught for 950 (symbolic) years before the flood. [48] The Baháʼí Faith was founded in 19th century Persia, and it recognizes divine messengers from both the Abrahamic and the Indian traditions. a b Cline, Eric H. (2009). Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. pp.71–75. ISBN 978-0199741076. In contrast to the Jewish tradition, which uses a term that can be translated as a "box" or " chest" to describe the Ark, surah 29:15 of the Quran refers to it as a safina, an ordinary ship; surah 7:64 uses fulk, [42] [43] and surah 54:13 describes the Ark as "a thing of boards and nails". Abd Allah ibn Abbas, a contemporary of Muhammad, wrote that Noah was in doubt as to what shape to make the Ark and that Allah revealed to him that it was to be shaped like a bird's belly and fashioned of teak wood. [44]

In the fourth century, Epiphanius of Salamis wrote about Noah's Ark in his Panarion, saying "Thus even today the remains of Noah's ark are still shown in Cardyaei." [50] Other translations render "Cardyaei" as "the country of the Kurds". [51] Schadewald, Robert J. (Summer 1982). "Six Flood Arguments Creationists Can't Answer". Creation/Evolution Journal. 3 (3): 12–17 . Retrieved 16 November 2010. Isaak, M. (1998). "Problems with a Global Flood". TalkOrigins Archive . Retrieved 29 March 2007. Isaak no a geologist Nicholson, Ernest W. (2003). The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: the legacy of Julius Wellhausen. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199257836. Genesis 7:23 : Job 14:19; 21:18; 22:11, 16; Ps 90:5; Isa 28:2; Mt 24:39; Lk 17:27; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5

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The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, ( A) because I have found you righteous ( B) in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean ( C) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive ( D) throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain ( E) on the earth ( F) for forty days ( G) and forty nights, ( H) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made. ( I)”

Nigosian, S.A. (2004), From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, JHU Press, ISBN 9780801879883 Nor did Noah take two of every animal onto the Ark – or rather, again, he did and he didn’t. In 7:2, God tells Noah to take seven of ‘every clean beast’, ‘and of beats that are not clean by two, the male and the female’. This contradicts what had been said in 6:19: ‘And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark’. The same goes (6:20) for every fowl, cattle, and ‘creeping thing’. The Impossible Voyage of Noah's Ark | National Center for Science Education". ncse.ngo . Retrieved 2021-04-06. The next few decades saw expeditions that involved the finding and interrogating of local “guides” who lived in the area, all of whom allegedly told stories of seeing the Ark from their fathers and grandfathers.Van Seters, John (1992). Prologue to History: The Yahwist As Historian in Genesis. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664221799. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. Plimer, Ian (1994). Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism. Random House Australia. p.303. ISBN 978-0-09-182852-3. Baring-Gould, Sabine (1884). "Noah". Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources. James B. Millar and Co., New York. p.113.