Noah’s Ark

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Long ago, the world was full of violence, and people had turned away from God. But one man, Noah, loved God and did what was right.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:8 KJV

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God told Noah to build a huge boat called an ark, with rooms inside, sealed with pitch to keep the water out.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Genesis 6:14 KJV

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Noah did everything God told him. Then the animals came to the ark, two by two, male and female.

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:9 KJV

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Noah, his family and the animals went inside, and God shut the door. Then the rain began. It rained for forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12 KJV

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The water rose higher and higher, until it covered even the mountains. But the ark floated safely on top of the water.

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 7:18 KJV

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God remembered Noah. He sent a wind, the rain stopped, and the water slowly went down. The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:4 KJV

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Noah sent out a dove. It came back carrying a fresh olive leaf in its beak, so Noah knew the land was drying out.

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Genesis 8:11 KJV

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When the earth was dry, everyone came out of the ark. God put a rainbow in the clouds as a promise that he would never again flood the whole earth.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:13 KJV