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NOAH had a wife and three sons. His sons’ names were Shem, Ham and Jaʹpheth. And each of these sons had a wife. So there were eight persons in Noah’s family. God now had Noah do a strange thing. He told him to build a big ark. This ark was large like a ship, but it looked more like a big, long box. ‘Make it three floors high,’ God said ...
Noah’s Ark: Overview. Noah’s ark was the vessel by which God spared a righteous man, Noah, and his family from God’s judgment against humanity’s wickedness. God commanded Noah to build an ark of specific proportions that would protect and preserve Noah, his family, and the animal kinds that would then repopulate the earth once the ...
Lamech became the father of Noah at 182. Genesis 5:28. 874 + 182 = 1056. The Flood started when Noah was 600. Genesis 7:6. 1056 + 600 = 1656. As you can see from Table 1, the year in which the Flood came was 1656 AM 1 (Anno Mundi – “year of the world”).
Perhaps 20–40 years for all of the sons to be raised and find a wife. Each son was old enough to be married before construction on the Ark begins. Genesis 6:18. ~ 55–75 years (estimate) Noah was told to build the Ark, for he, his wife, his sons, and his sons’ wives would be aboard the Ark. Genesis 6:18. Ark Completed.
Noah was married and had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Each of the sons had his own wife. In the years Noah spent building the Ark, his grandfather Methuselah and father Lamech were alive and may have even assisted Noah in some ways. We are told that Noah walked with the Lord and found grace in His sight (Genesis 6:8–9; cf. Ezekiel 14: ...
Noah didn’t take fish or whales or barnacles on board the Ark. After all, God’s judgment was a flood, not a fire or drought. For purposes of keeping their “seed” alive, aquatic kinds could survive in the water. Furthermore, Genesis 7:15 says that “they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life ...
The Ark: A Floating Shelter. Jan. 1, 2016 from Kids Answers Magazine. Noah had a BIG job. God told him to build an Ark to keep his family alive and to save all the kinds of creatures that lived on land and breathed air.
4 Noah grew up in a world that was rapidly going from bad to worse. It had been bad in the days of his great-grandfather Enoch, another righteous man who walked with God. Enoch had foretold that a day of judgment was coming upon the ungodly people of the world. Now, in Noah’s day, ungodliness was far worse. In fact, from Jehovah’s viewpoint ...
Download or print this activity and find out how you can imitate Noah’s example of obedience. Noah walked with God, displaying unwavering faith in the violent world before the Flood. By building the ark, Noah and his family set an example for us.
An ark is a huge box that can float on water. Jehovah also told Noah to bring many animals inside the ark so that they could survive too. Noah immediately started building the ark. It took Noah and his family about 50 years to build it. They built the ark exactly as Jehovah told them to. During that time, Noah warned the people about the Flood.
