To fully understand the story of the great flood and point out the details, I find it best to summarize most of the first chapters in Genesis. Chapter 6 of Genesis is broken down as follows; "The sons of God saw the daughters of men..." (6:2) thus creating a population of humans who were very wicked and "the Lord was sorry that he had made man on earth". So the Lord tells Noah that he is going to destroy all the people of the earth except for righteous Noah and his family. It

was even noted that Noah was so righteous that he "walked with God" (6:9). So the Lord tells Noah that he is going to flood the earth but makes a covenant with Noah that if he builds an ark, he will be saved. God gives exact building measurements of the ark in cubits. God also tells Noah to bring his family and extended family to the ark and also two of every kind of animal on the earth, male and female. God continues telling Noah to store every available food for himself, his family and the animals. Genesis, chapters 7-9 tell in more detail what happened during the great flood. The Lord tells Noah to brind seven pairs of clean animals, and one pair of other animals into the ark along with stores of food. The flood began and continued for forty days and forty nights. Then the rain stopped and Noah released a raven and a dove. The raven is only mentioned once (8:7 ) but the dove is release three times, returning the second time with an olive branch and never returning after the third release. So Noah comes along dry ground where he unloads everyone from the ark and makes a burnt offering to God who smells the sweet fragrance. God then tells them to be "fruitful and multipy" (9:1) and makes another covenant with Noah. The covenant is seen through a bow in the sky (rainbow) and symbolizes God's promise to never flood the earth again.

From these three different versions of a great flood on the earth, it can be said that there really was a great flood. These stories have been passed down for so long that ther

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