Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Great Flood

Many years after the death of Adam and Eve, all the people in the world had become so wicked that God determined to destroy them all by a great flood.

But among these wicked people there was one good man, called Noah; and God would not destroy him with the wicked ones. So He told Noah to build a great ship, called an Ark, that would hold him and his family, with numbers of beasts, and birds, and other living creatures. In this ark they might float along safely when the water covered the earth, and come out alive when it dried up again.

So when they were shut in the ark God drowned the whole world, as He had said He would.

When they had been shut in some months, Noah sent out a raven and a dove, in order to know whether the earth was again dry. The raven did not return to him; but the dove came back, because everything was covered with water after the flood. Then again he sent the dove out, and when it came back with an olive leaf in its beak, he knew the water was almost all gone. Afterwards (when God told him), he came out of the ark on dry ground.

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