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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark is a vessel describes in Genesis chapters 6-9 of the Hebrew Bible. In the story, God instructs a man named Noah to build an ark to providing a save-haven for Noah, his family, and all species of animals. Once Noah and his fellow travelers are aboard the ark, God enacts a massive flood, destroying all other living things on the planet. The inhabitants of the ark go on to repopulate the world after the great flood.
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Which mountain did God say to Noah where to build the Ark on?
Ararat was the name of the mountain range on which Noah's ark settled. The book of Genesis indicated that the ark settled on one mountain in the range [8:4]. But it didn't indicate any name or description that would have helped specified the ark's final resting place.
Who was on the ark that Noah built?
Noah built the ark. He was told by God that there was so much evil in the world that he was going to send a flood. A flood to clear out of all those who weren't living in peace and were doing wrong. God told Noah to take himself, his family and 2 of every species of an animal into his ark, (wooden boat), so that they could survive the flood.
Noah, One of god chosen people.
What was the worlds population when Noah built the ark?
We don't know. However, based upon human remains and archaeology, there wasn't a vast number of people. Probably several million. See also:
How long did Noah wait after building the ark for the flood to come?
After the ark ordered by God was built, the heavy rains and flood came seven days later. The construction of the ark took about 120 years. The Story of Noah's Ark can be found in the book of Genesis.
Has Noah's Ark been discovered?
Yes, Noah's ark existed. But it undoubtedly would have rotted away after the great flood. The ark was made of cypress wood. So the ark's materials ultimately would have decayed and returned to nature. At the minimum, the ark's bottom would have been exposed to heavy doses of moisture.
How old was Noah when God flooded earth?
There is no scriptural evidence to say how old the earth was at the time of the flood. The term (Day) in the Lords time is said to be 1000 years in our time. This is no basis to lay claim that the earth was so many years old at the time of the flood. No one really knows how old the earth is. Even carbon dating is not sure fire method of giving a satisfactory answer. The word Day is an unknown period of time.
What day did Noah land the ark?
In Genesis 8:4 we read, 'And the ark rested in the 7th month, on the 17th day of the month, upon the mountains of Arafat.
Please note this was an ark and not a boat, ship or even raft with oars so there were no movement controls. The ark settled when/where/how God chose for it to settle. Plain and simple. :)
This can't be answered with any degree of accuracy.
Some will say 4000 BCE, determined by following biblical genealogies. Some might say 90,000 BCE, the oldest known homosapien fossils . Other will cite a DNA analysis that indicates 150, 000 BCE, and still others will tell you that Adam wasn't created that he evolved from a prehistoric hominid, or even that he never existed.
What is the story of Noah in the ark?
Although many different interpretations are put on the story of Noah's Ark it is clear from the writing itself that it is intended to be a historical narrative of an actual historical event. There are a number of references to specific time 'anchors' such as how old Noah was at the various stages of events. The events are also told with little embellishment or exaggeration (which is indeed difficult, given the magnitude of the events recorded), which is a standard hallmark of myths or legends, some of which have arisen from other attempts to re-write the flood record from a different perspective.
It is also clear from references made to Noah elsewhere in the Bible, that it is regarded as a specific historical event.
Further to this, the geologic record has abundant evidence of the 'mabul', the specific Hebrew word for this flood (as distinct from other smaller local floods, though themselves destructive). The geologic record thus points back to the clear intention of the author of the original Hebrew account, which was to give a historic narrative of this actual event.
The account of Noah's Ark, since it has a theme of divine judgment, is also regarded as a 'type' or 'figure' or 'picture' of the coming judgment by fire spoken of in a number of places in the New Testament. The obvious point here is that just as the coming judgment is to be a real and actual judgment so was the judgment on the wicked world in Noah's day.
There are a number of problems presented by the assertion that the account of Noah is to be regarded as a historical narrative. None of these is unsolvable, and in any case, the question relates to the type of story written. Thus any assumption that such an event didn't or could not happen must not be read back into the intention of the author. Even though the event comes down to us today through the passage of millennia (around 4500 Years), with the actual final written form being about 3500 years old, this does not diminish the original intent or purpose which was to give an account of an actual event.
What was used to seal Noah's Ark from moisture?
Pitch was used to caulk Noah's ark, according to Genesis 6:14. Noah was told to use good timber in the building of the ark. Everything was to covered with pitch inside and out. Such meticulous attention to the caulking would have protected the ark from water leaking or pooling.
How long was the Earth flooded during Noah's Flood?
According to Genesis, it rained for forty days and forty nights. The Flood lasted for one year, long enough to kill every species and subspecies of animal on earth. It was also long enough to wipe out almost every species of plants, including trees, but the ancients did not realise this and Noah did not worry about collecting the millions of seeds and spores he would need to revegetate the earth. ;
What are facts about Noahs ark?
God said to Noah that he would destroy the earth by a great flood because of mankind's sinfulness. Noah was to build an ark (boat) to carry his family and 2 of every kind of animal. It rained 40 days and 40 nights, after which Noah sent a bird out to check for dry land. The ark finally landed on what the Old Testament calls Mount Ararat, which may or may not be the Mount Ararat we know today. Noah's Ark was really a place of safety for Noah and his immediate family, and the animals that he had aboard. Its necessity revealed the terrible depravity and violence to which mankind had degenerated as well as the mercy of God in providing a way of escape, which was available to all, but sadly, only a few people chose to go. Biblical Christians consider the ark a symbol of Christ, as faith in Him is our safety from destruction due to sin.
Many questions have been raised about all sorts of things regarding this boat. If close attention is paid to what the Bible does and does not say in the whole account in Genesis 6 - 9, then the story is actually feasible. For example, the Bible does not say the animals were to be full grown. Most would have been young, or even eggs. The Bible says each after its "kind;" for example, "canine kind" would have been the forerunners of wolves and dogs. This is differentiation, not macro-evolution, by the way. According to Genesis the ark would have been about half as big as the Queen Mary. Thus there would have been room enough for all the kinds and the food to sustain them.
See the Related Links for "Safety Investigation of Noah's Ark In a Seaway" to the left for an answer to one of the issues surrounding this massive boat.
How many doves were in Noahs ark?
In the book of Genesis, 8th Chapter, Noah send out a bird on three separate occasions to see if the water had abated from off the earth. The first and second times were doves while the third was a raven.
Were there any polar bears on Noahs ark?
The book of Genesis didn't say whether or not polar bears [Ursus maritimus] were included on the ark. It just made a general reference to at least one female and one male each of every breathing, living species.
The oldest polar bear fossil is no more than 100,000 years old. There's evidence of a worldwide flood sometime between 4000 B.C.E. and 2800 B.C.E. So polar bears may have been included on the ark if indeed every breathing, living species was represented on board.
Did Noah and his family repopulate the earth?
Noah's wife, and his sons and their wives were also on the ark. They would have had children (bearing in mind that the lifespans were longer then), grandchildren and so on... Studies have been done that show it is quite possible to have the population we have in the world today in the time since Noah lived.
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Let's be mathematical. Say for instance a generation were to double the population, so that 2 parents had 4 children. If there's a generation every 20 years, that would give time for 200 generations in 4000 years. The current world population is some 7 billion. 2 to the 33rd power is well over 8 billion, so he would really have needed only 33 of the potentially 200 generations of his descendants doubling the population; so it's certainly feasible. .
According to the Bible what substance was used to caulk Noah's ark?
Tar or bitumen(Genesis 6:14), of which there was plenty(Genesis 14:10) (Exodus 2:3)
What city was noah who built the ark born?
The Bible does not exactly say. But according to the Bible Noah supposedly built the ark in Suroppak, which was 520 miles away from Mount Ararat, which is where Noah lived with his wife until her death after the flood.
Was Noah and the great flood real?
No. The flood described in the Bible is allegorical, meant to illustrate moral lessons rather than to depict some actual event.
Another Answer:
Yes, Jesus Himself, confirmed it to be an actual event:
Matthew 24:38-39New King James Version (NKJV)38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
What substance was use to caulk the Ark and Moses' basket?
A combination of tar and pitch were used the caulk the papyrus basket he lay in. He was then set afloat among the reeds and was found by the Pharaoh's daughter. When his sister sees the Pharaoh's daughter taking the basket, she inquires if she needs a wet nurse. Upon her agreement, she takes Moses to his birth mother and she becomes his wet nurse.
How many animals did Noah saved from the flood?
He did not take the unicorn onto the Ark, but the unicorn belongs to an entirely different legend and we should not concern with it in relation to Noah's Ark.
Why would god send unclean animals onto the ark?
Just because certain animals were unfit for human consumption did not mean that those animals did not deserve to live.
How many feet and meters was Noah's ark?
According to Dr. Max D. Younce, who says by his calculations from Genesis 6:15 that the ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet deep. He says this is equivalent to "522 standard stock cars or 8 freight trains of 65 cars each." By some divine calculation he figures that all the insect species and the worms could fit in 21 box cars. No divine calculations needed. The measurements are based on the cubit and there is some discussion over which cubit Noah used. The shortest ancient cubit was 445 millimetres which gives an ark of 433 feet. The longer Royal Cubit (the longest known ancient cubit) at 524 mm would give an ark of 488 feet.
Hope this helps.
How many pairs of clean animals did God tell Noah to put in the ark?
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.
How many people were on earth before noah ark flood?
This depends very much on a number of variables which need to be clarified in order to understand the conclusion reached. It must also be remembered that it never was the intention of any Biblical author to satisfy the modern thirst for detailed information and statistics. However, using various assumptions an answer can be arrived at which must be seen for what it is - our best estimate based on available information. Others may come up with different estimates based on other assumptions. The assumptions used to come up with the figure below all take the Bible to be an accurate record of the events it describes - although of course not at all directly addressing the question we here have in hand.
The first of these is the acceptance that the flood was worldwide. This is made clear by the Biblical record repeatedly.
Secondly is the time frame from creation to the flood. A number of figures are available on this - even people like Newton and Keppler did their calculations and came up with similar time periods. The best known calculation is of course Ussher's time of 1656 years.
Thirdly, the rate of reproduction - using conservative figures of population growth based on the information provided in the Biblical record, then the figure arrived at would be around 7 Billion people.
Source: Henry M. Morris The Genesis Record: Baker, Grand Rapids,1976. p 143-144.
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