Ah, the Flood. The Deluge. Judgment by water. A new beginning for mankind. It is too bad we didn't learn from that lesson, but I suppose that is what we get for being sinful creatures.
So Noah was 600 when the Flood happened, meaning that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 1656 years since Adam's creation. It is also worth noting that when God first instructed Noah to build the ark we see him being told that he is to take with him his wife, his sons, and their wives. Because we are told in Genesis 5 that Noah was 500 years old when he had his sons (were they triplets, or was that just an approximation?) it means that there was well less than 100 years to build the ark. His sons must have already been grown and married, so maybe 70 years at the most? A project like that certainly would have taken time for one family, and they would have needed to tend to other things at the same time in order to sustain themselves while building it.
I've also always been amused that God's judgment here extended to the animals and birds - but fish and things that live in the sea get off scott free. That wasn't supposed to rhyme, I apologize. Anyways, the Flood being worldwide and quite deep probably accounts for a lot of the land features that modern science claims could only have happened over millions of years. It is too bad that so many scientists and historians discount the Bible out of hand, or they might find much easier ways to explain many of this world's mysteries.
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I wonder if Noah had other people in his household. It does say at the beginning of the chapter, "Enter the ark, you and all your household..."
It is also interesting to note the numbers of animals. 14 of each or 7 pairs of both clean animals and birds and only 2 of each or 1 pair of unclean animals. Of course, only a pair of each is usually quoted as being on the ark. It really must have been enormous, though...
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