In the Bible
Did Noah take two of every animal?
Two of every kind, male and female. Genesis 7 adds seven pairs of the clean animals and of the birds, so not every animal came in twos.
See Genesis 7:2-3
The beginnings
Who was Noah in the Bible?
Noah was the man God warned before the flood in Genesis. He built an ark, brought his family and the animals through the waters, and God made a promise with him never to flood the earth again. The rainbow is the sign of that promise.
- When
- Before any history we can date. Genesis places him in the tenth generation from Adam.
- Read
- Genesis 6–9
7 moments
Noah’s life, in order
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A world gone wrong
God sees violence filling the earth and grieves that he made people. Noah is the one man who walks with God.
Build an ark
God tells Noah to build a boat of cypress wood and gives its size. Noah does all God commands.
Into the ark
Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives go in with the animals. God shuts the door.
The flood
Rain falls for 40 days and nights, and the waters cover the land for 150 days.
The dove
The ark rests on the mountains of Ararat. Noah sends out a raven, then a dove that comes back with an olive leaf.
The rainbow promise
Noah builds an altar. God promises never again to destroy the earth by flood and sets the rainbow as the sign.
After the flood
Noah plants a vineyard, gets drunk, and his family is torn by what follows. He dies at 950.
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Key verses about Noah
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:9Who Noah was
I have set my bow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:13The sign of the promise
By faith Noah, after God warned him about things not yet seen, with reverence built an ark to rescue his household. Through it he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that accords with faith.
Hebrews 11:7Noah as a man of faith
Questions people ask
What the Bible says, and what tradition adds
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Not known
Where did the ark land?
Genesis says “the mountains of Ararat”, a region, not one peak. Tradition points to Mount Ararat in Turkey. No search for the ark has found it.
See Genesis 8:4
Readers disagree
Did the flood cover the whole earth?
Christians disagree. Some read Genesis as a flood over the whole globe. Others read it as a flood over the whole land the writer knew. Both sides take the story as true and from God.
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