There is a story found in the book of Genesis about a good man named Noah. Noah had three sons who were named Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah lived in a time when all the people of the earth were very bad. Yahweh got mad at all the people because they did not live the way Yahweh tells everyone they should. Yahweh was so mad He was sorry He even made people. So Yahweh decided to have a big flood to kill all the bad people, everyone except Noah and his family.
Yahweh told Noah to build a very big boat called an ark. To build it out of gopher wood. An ark big enough for Noah and his wife and his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives. An ark big enough for two of every unclean animal (animals you cannot eat like pigs, dogs, and bears) and seven of every clean animal (animals you can eat like chickens, sheep, and cows).
After about one hundred and twenty years Noah was finished building the ark. Then all the animals came into the ark safely with Noah and his family and Yahweh shut them in. Yahweh then sent a great rain that lasted for forty days! The water rose higher and higher till you could not see even the tallest mountain! Only Noah and his family and all the animals that were in the ark were saved.
The ark floated on the water for five months till it landed on the mountains of Ararat. There the ark stayed for seven months till the waters went down and the ground dried. At the end of the seven months Noah sent out a raven and a dove to search for a place to rest. The dove came back after finding no place to land. After seven days Noah again sent out the dove and it returned with an olive branch in its beak. Noah then lifted the covering off the ark and saw dry ground. Noah and his wife and his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives and all the animals went out of the ark.
Noah built an altar to Yahweh and used some of the clean animals to make sacrifices. Yahweh saw this and sent a rainbow as a sign that he would never again send a flood to kill all the people.
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