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few generations after Adam and Eve, God
despaired of the people of Earth. They were violent and corrupt. God announced
He would wipe out the entire population and begin afresh. One man, however, was
honest and blameless and that man was Noah.
God told Noah that he and his family would be saved. He instructed Noah
to build an ark, a huge vessel that can hold two of every kind of animal.
It
took months of hard work, but at last the ark was finished. The animals were
still climbing aboard as the rains began to fall. Never before and never again has so much rain
fallen from the sky. By the time it stopped, even the mountain tops were
covered. It took almost a year for the flood water to drain away, but at last,
Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that the land was dry.
Noah
presented a sacrifice to God and God told him that from then on, he and his
descendants could kill animals to eat meat but must drain the meat of blood.
God promised that He would never again destroy the Earth by water. The promise was marked across the sky with a
rainbow.
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