The Flood – Genesis 6:5-8:22

The Story in a Nutshell

As the human population on earth grew God noticed that the people were becoming more and more wicked; their thoughts were totally evil.  God was sorry that He made them and decided to completely wipe out all the people including the birds and animals.  But one man, Noah, found favor with God.

Noah was a righteous man, the only one living on earth.  He followed God and had a close relationship with him.  One day God told Noah the he was going to destroy all the living creatures on earth with a great flood.  He told Noah to build a boat (the ark), and he gave him complete details on the design and dimensions.  Noah and his wife, his sons (Shem, Ham, Japheth), and their wives would be safe on the boat.  When the boat was finished, Noah was also to bring a pair of every kind of animal – male and female – into the boat and keep them alive during the flood.

Noah did exactly as God commanded.  When the flood came, he, his family and the animals went aboard to safety.  It rained forty days and nights and water covered the entire earth, but Noah and the ark were safe.  The flood covered the earth for 150 days and everything died that lived and breathed on land.  Slowly the waters receded and five months after the flood began the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.  After several months of waiting, Noah sent out a dove to find dry land; it finally did.   Shortly thereafter, Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, and the animals returned to dry earth.  Then Noah built an altar and made a sacrifice to God.  God was pleased, and said that he would never again destroy all living things even though people’s thoughts and actions are bent toward evil.

Review Questions

Why did God want to destroy the earth?

Who found favor with God?

What did God tell Noah to do?

When the flood came, who went into the ark?

How long did it rain?

What happened when the waters completely covered the earth?

How did Noah know that there was dry land outside the ark?

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