The reason for this surprising find is that there are actually two stories of Noah's Ark in The Bible, written by two different authors and cleverly interleaved so that the result appears to be just one, rather complicated story. In the same way as there are two answers to this question, we can also find that one story has the flood subsiding in just forty days, while the other says that it lasted one year.
We do not know the names of the two different authors of the biblical stories of Noah, and they are now called the Priestly Source and the Yahwist:
· The Flood verses attributed to the Priestly author are: Genesis 6:9-22, 7:6, 7:8-9, 7:11, 7:13-16a, 7:18-21, 7:24, 8:1-2a, 8:3b-5, 8:7, 8:13a, 8:14-19, 9:1-17.
· The verses attributed to the Yahwist are: Genesis 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 7:7, 7:10, 7:12, 7:16b-17, 7:22-23, 8:2b-3a, 8:6, 8:8-12, 8:13b, 8:20-22.
We do not know the names of the two different authors of the biblical stories of Noah, and they are now called the Priestly Source, whose version says that Noah took 2 of each clean animal, and the Yahwist, whose version says that Noah took 7 of each clean animal.
The story of Noah's Ark is actually composed of two separate version of the same story, interwoven so as to appear to be the same, rather complex account.
In one version, known as the Yahwist version, Noah took two of each unclean animal, but seven of each clean animal into the Ark. In the Priestly version, there was no distinction between clean and unclean animals, Noah simply took two of each kind, both clean and unclean.
According to Genesis, one pair (two, male and female) of each unclean animal and seven of every clean animal or bird.
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there were 20 different animals on Noah's ark, but that number may not be accurate because the scene was such a long time ago.. ;D
seven each. See Genesis 7:2-3.
The offering of animals as burnt sacrifices after the flood was not related to the preservation of species. It was a religious practice of gratitude and worship towards God, which was common in many ancient cultures. The purpose of the ark was to save Noah, his family, and the animals from the flood, and the act of offering animals as sacrifices was a separate spiritual practice.
He told him what to do. He said Noah should build an ark, and also how it should be constructed: what kind of materials, how big, and many features in it. He also told Noah how many animals to bring (7 pairs of kosher animals, and 1 pair of others).
No animals died on Noah's Ark.
Adam did not make an ark. Noah made an ark.
There were pairs (male and female) of either two or seven of each kind on the ark. The Bible says they entered the ark in twos. Many aquatic animals would not have needed to enter the ark at all.
According to Genesis 7, they went in by themselves - Genesis is somewhat contradictory about how many went aboard (either 7 of clean animals [most of them] and 2 unclean or 2 of each). Either way, millions of animals (and presumably many thousands of non-marine plants) would have to have been accomodated (if it was true!).
Once in Noah's time that there were a pair of each animals.
At the minimum, two of each species went on Noah's ark. They were made up of one female and one male each. Additionally, Noah brought seven pairs each of every ritually clean animal, and of every kind of bird [Genesis 7:20-23].
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In Noah's Ark Noah saves many animals from being killed by a flood. In Schindler's Ark Schindler saves many Jews from being killed in the Holocaust