The flood began when people on earth committed too many sins. God saw this and he didn’t like what he saw. He decided to destroy every man and every beast on the face of the earth. Then the Lord decided that Noah shall be warned for he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah built an ark. The ark was made of gopher wood. It was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad and 30 cubits high. The ark was finally finished after 120 years. I am so lucky to be part of his family. We had to stay in the ark for 7 days before the flood. God shut the door when we were all inside the ark. It rained for forty days and forty nights. Inside the ark, there were clean animals by sevens and unclean animals by twos. For one hundred and ten days, the ark rested on Mt. Ararat. After 40 days, my father sent out a raven. Seven days more and my father sent out a dove; it returned. He sent out another dove. The dove came back with an olive leaf on its mouth. The last dove my father sent out did not come back. Finally, after 57 days, we went out of the ark. We saw a rainbow. It symbolizes God’s promise of never destroying the earth with water.
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