Reading Notes A, Classical Unit: Noah's Ark and the Flood

Noah's Ark (1846), a painting by Edward Hicks.

(Source: Google Arts and Culture)

From Noah's Unit: The Ark. The Flood and After the Flood

Lamech had a son named Noah, who perpetuated generations to come, as his daughters and sons roamed the earth with him. From the heavens, God saw that those on earth were wicked and corrupt, but Noah was not wicked. Noah was just in his actions and because of this, God would his spare his life when he would end life for all others on earth. God spoke to Noah and told him to build an ark, an ark that would save the life of Noah, his wife, Noah's sons, and their wives when God would flood the earth to end all men and women. Onto this ark, they would bring a pair of every living thing that roamed the earth that was not man, one male and one female, to keep them from becoming extinct after God would flood the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Noah obeyed God’s commands, loading everyone and everything onto the Ark, and the rain poured. The rain poured for forty days and forty nights and everyone and everything that remained on earth died along with God’s hopelessness for humanity. Forty days passed and Noah opened a window of the ark through which he sent a raven to see if the earth remained flooded. He also sent a dove to see if the flood still remained, but when she returned drenched in rainwater, Noah knew it was not time to leave the ark. He sent the dove out once again after seven days and she came back with an olive branch so Noah knew that the lands of earth were dry enough for trees to grow. He sent the dove out again after seven days and she never returned. One day, Noah opened up the covering of the ark and Noah told his family and friends with wings, tails, hooves, and utters that they were free to roam the earth as they once had before.

(In my story for this week, I plan on expanding on the effects of the flood on the face of the earth, almost depicting it as a reset button for all environmental degradation caused by man!) 

Story source: The King James Bible (1611), Genesis 5-6 and 8-9