Sunday, September 13, 2020

Week 4 Reading Notes: Noah and the Ark Part A

  • Noah puts two of every animal into the Ark (one male/one female)

  • Noah, Noah’s wife, Sons (Sham, Ham, and Japheth), and sons’ wives go into the Ark, Lord shut them in

  • The flood raged for forty days (what’d they do for forty days?)

  • Everything was covered in water; mountains were covered

  • All man and animals that weren’t in the Ark perished

Source: The King James Bible (1611)


The Birth of Noah

  • Lamech and his wife had a child (Noah); he was a beautiful baby with white hair

  • Noah’s eyes lit up a whole room, and he would praise the Lord when he talked

  • Lamech was afraid of Noah, went to his father Methuselah and asks him to go to Enoch to find out why Noah is so strange

  • Enoch explains to Methuselah the coming of the flood in the future

  • Noah’s birth changed everything; originally, oats would sprout when wheat was planted. Now everything grew properly

  • Noah invented plough, scythe and hoe as gardening tools (people usually used their hands)

  • Noah’s birth now prevented the waves from flooding the land twice a day

  • Noah’s birth also ended the Second Great Famine

Source: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909)


Noah’s Sons (Genesis)

  • God tells Noah and his sons to go and replenish the Earth

  • God vows that all animals that move along the Earth and all fishes in the sea will provide them meat

  • He also states that men should not kill one another; anyone who kills a man will be killed himself

  • God tells them to be fruitful and multiply

  • God promises Noah there will not be another flood

  • God puts his bow in the cloud as a token of his promise; God/Noah may look upon it to remind themselves of their promise

  • Noah and his sons replenish the Earth

  • Noah gets drunk, sons find him naked; sons cover him up

  • Noah curses Ham’s son, Canaan, to be a servant to Sham and Japheth

  • Noah dies 350 years after the flood (lives to be an age of 950)

Source: The King James Bible (1611)


Noah’s Ark, via the Untextbook

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