Noah and his Ark

Noah and his Ark

Germanisches Museum, Nurember
The flood Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638)

After many, many years, God looked at the world he had created and regretted what he had done. The people who lived all over the earth had grown very bad; they were cruel to each other, and they no longer listened to God. He decided to destroy the whole world in a huge flood. 

There was just one man who loved God and obeyed Him. His name was Noah. God said to Noah. 'You must build an ark a great boat, so that you can save your family and the creatures on the earth from the flood. I will tell you exactly how to build this ark.

Noah listened carefully to God's instructions, and set to work. He cut down trees of the right wood and collected together all the things he needed. Helped by his three sons, he began to build his ark. First, they marked out the shape of the boat on the ground. 

Then they made a wooden frame and covered it with planks of wood. They spread tar on the inside and outside to make it waterproof. After many months of hard work, the ark was finished. It had three decks, a door in the side, and a roof. 

Noah had built it exactly as God had told him to do. Then Noah and his family collected huge amounts of food and water for themselves and for all the creatures, and spent days loading it onto the ark.

Just as they were checking that everything was ready, the sky darkened with huge, black clouds. blocking out the sun. Then it began to rain, gently at first, but growing heavier all the time.

Noah heard a strange noise, getting louder and louder. He stopped what he was doing, and looked in the direction of the hills. A great procession of creatures was coming his way in an endless line all barking, mooing. grunting, whistling and singing. 

There were two of every kind of animal and bird in the world. Noah stared at them, wondering if they could all fit into his ark. As he watched, the creatures filed in and there was just room for them all. Then Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, went on board and when they were inside. God closed the door.

Outside the rain fell steadily for forty days and nights, and the water slowly covered the ground. It grew deeper and deeper, until it reached the tops of the mountains, and everything was drowned in a terrible flood.

The ark floated away. For months and months, it was tossed by the waves of this great empty sea. At last, Noah heard the rains top and the water began to go down a little. 

He opened a window and sent off a raven. 'Go and find some dry land, he said. Away flew the raven but, although it searched for a very long time, it couldn't find any land.

Noah waited for a week or two, and then sent off a dove. The dove flew away but there was still no land for it to settle on, and it returned to the ark. 

Noah opened the window and let the dove in. Noah waited for another week, and then sent off the dove again. This time it flew back in the evening with an olive leaf in its beak. 'That means that the water is going down, and things are growing again, said Noah.

After another week, Noah sent off the dove again but, this time, it didn't come back. Noah lifted the cover off the ark and looked out. He could see that the ark was resting on dry land.

Noah, you and your family may now leave the ark. said God. 'All the creatures are to spread out all over the earth. and have their families. From now on, there will be seasons summer and winter to sow the crops and to harvest them.

Noah opened the door and he and his family rushed out. The sun was shining and the land was dry. The creatures in the ark followed them, and at once started to spread out to repopulate the world. 

Noah thanked God for saving him, his family, and all the creatures from the flood. In the sky was a rainbow. 

'That is my sign, said God. 

'I promise I will never flood the earth like this again.


For well over a century, scholars have recognized that the Bible's story of Noah's Ark is based on older Mesopotamian models. 

Because all these flood stories deal with events that allegedly happened at the dawn of history, they give the impression that the myths themselves must come from very primitive origins, but the myth of the global flood that destroys all life only begins to appear in the Old Babylonian period (20th–16th centuries BCE).

The parallels between Noah's Ark and the arks of Babylonian flood heroes Atrahasis and Utnapishtim have often been noted. Atrahasis' Ark was circular, resembling an enormous quffa, with one or two decks. Utnapishtim's ark was a cube with six decks of seven compartments, each divided into nine subcompartments (63 subcompartments per deck, 378 total). 

Noah's Ark was rectangular with three decks. A progression is believed to exist from a circular to a cubic or square to rectangular. The most striking similarity is the near-identical deck areas of the three arks: 14,400 cubits2, 14,400 cubits2, and 15,000 cubits2 for Atrahasis, Utnapishtim, and Noah, only 4% different. 

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Linguistic parallels between Noah's and Atrahasis' arks have also been noted. The word used for 'pitch' (sealing tar or resin) in Genesis is not the normal Hebrew word, but is closely related to the word used in the Babylonian story. 

Likewise, the Hebrew word for "ark" (tevah) is nearly identical to the Babylonian word for an oblong boat (ṭubbû), especially given that "v" and "b" are the same letter in Hebrew: bet (ב).

Irving Finkel concluded, the iconic story of the Flood, Noah, and the Ark as we know it today certainly originated in the landscape of ancient Mesopotamia, modern Iraq.


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