A world full of violence, one man who walked with God, a boat on dry ground and a year shut inside, told by the family who went in.
There are people everywhere now, and the world is full of violence. God looks at it and sees it’s rotten. Everyone’s way of living has gone bad.
Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence. And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
Still the hardest line in the book to write. The LORD is sorry he ever made people. It breaks his heart.
Moses@mosesOne of the saddest lines I have to write. The LORD sees that every thought in people’s hearts is evil, all the time. He’s sorry he ever made them, and it breaks his heart. He says he’ll wipe them off the face of the earth.Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
One man is different. Noah. He’s right with God, blameless among the people of his day. He walks with God.
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD. This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Replying to @moses
“Walked with God.” Only one other person in the family tree gets that line. Enoch. Noah’s great-grandfather.
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah. And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. So Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away. When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech. And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died. When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son. And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.” This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Noah. Married, three grown sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. When I was born, my dad hoped I’d bring some comfort from all the hard work on this ground the LORD cursed.
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.” After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
God spoke to me. He’s going to put an end to everyone. The earth is full of violence because of them.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Replying to @noah
Then he told me to build a boat.
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
The plans, since everyone keeps asking. 1. Gopher wood. 2. Rooms inside. 3. Pitch, inside and out. 4. 300 cubits long, 50 wide, 30 high. 5. A roof, with the walls finished a cubit from the top. 6. A door in the side. 7. Three decks.
Noah@noahGod told me the end was coming, because the earth was full of violence. Then he gave me the plans. Gopher wood. Pitch inside and out. Three decks, a door in the side, 300 cubits long. About 140 metres.Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
Replying to @noah
300 cubits. Of boat.
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
He said he’s bringing floodwaters on the earth. Everything that breathes will die. But he’s making a covenant with me, a binding promise. Me, my wife, our sons and their wives. We go into the ark.
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish. But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
Replying to @noah
All of us. He named all of us.
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
Two of every kind of animal as well. Every bird, every animal, everything that crawls. A male and a female, to keep them alive. And I don’t go and catch them. They’ll come to me.
And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
Replying to @noah
They’ll come to us. On their own. Sure. Why not.
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
And food. Every kind of food we eat, stored on board, for us and for them.
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
Replying to @noah
For all of them? For how long?
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
So Noah does it. All of it. Exactly the way God told him.
So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Right. Something massive is going up at Noah’s place. Wooden. Nobody round here has a clue what it is.
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Replying to @next.to.noahs
no because it’s got a roof and a door in the side. if that’s a boat it’s the biggest boat anyone’s ever seen
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
The pitch, mate. It’s in my hair, my clothes, my bread. Inside and out, he said. Inside AND out.
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Room after room after room. He said rooms, so: rooms.
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
genuine question. who builds a boat that size, here?
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Replying to @passing.by
Because God told Dad to.
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth. Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Building for something nobody’s seen yet. But he warned me, so I’m building.
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Replying to @noah
Hebrews puts it like this: he took the warning seriously, out of reverence for God, and built.
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Wedding this week, y’all! Whole family’s coming. Food’s handled, wine’s handled.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Replying to @wedding.week
Wouldn’t miss it.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
walked past noah’s again. there’s more of it every time. they are STILL going
So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him. who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
Replying to @passing.by
Peter says God was waiting patiently the whole time that ark was being built.
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
Storing food. Every kind we eat, and enough for every animal we’re told to keep alive. The store rooms are filling up.
You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
The LORD spoke again. Go into the ark, you and your whole family.
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Replying to @noah
Seven days. Then rain. Forty days and forty nights.
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Updated list. Clean animals: seven pairs of each kind. Birds: seven pairs of each kind. Everything else: one pair.
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate; and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Replying to @noah
Clean and unclean animals. Centuries before Moses writes down the law about which is which.
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate; This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground. You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
Again. Everything.
Moses@mosesSo Noah does it. All of it. Exactly the way God told him.And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Six hundred years old this year.
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Replying to @noah
Six hundred. And he built that. Fair play.
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
This is proper strange. Animals are walking up to Noah’s boat. In pairs. Nobody’s herding them. They just turn up.
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Replying to @next.to.noahs
birds too. things that crawl. literally all of it, two by two
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Lower deck’s full of noise now. Middle deck too.
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks. The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Noah’s six hundredth year, the seventeenth day of the second month. Remember the date.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Still going from the wedding. For real, best week ever.
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Noah’s whole family’s going into that boat. All of them. And the animals are going in behind them.
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons— they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
We’re in. Noah, me, Shem, Ham, Japheth and the boys’ wives. Eight of us.
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
The door’s shut. We didn’t shut it. The LORD shut us in.
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Replying to @noah
Nobody on this side touched it.
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Jesus used this exact day to describe his coming. Eating, drinking, weddings, right up to the day Noah went in.
Matthew@matthewHe compared it to Noah’s day. People eating and drinking, getting married, right up to the day Noah went into the ark. They had no idea, until the flood came and swept them all away.For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Rain.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Replying to @shem
Not just rain. Water’s bursting up out of the ground as well, and the sky’s pouring like someone’s opened the floodgates.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Rain on the roof. Day and night. Day and night.
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
We’re moving. The ark just lifted off the ground.
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Replying to @ham
Felt that in my stomach.
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
It hasn’t stopped. Not once.
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Forty days, forty nights. That’s what he said, and that’s what it’s been.
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.” And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
The water keeps rising until every high mountain under the whole sky is covered. Fifteen cubits over the tops. About seven metres.
Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
Everything on dry land that breathes dies, people and animals alike. Only Noah is left, and those with him in the ark.
And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
And the water stays over the earth for 150 days.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
Eight people. One boat. Every animal he sent us. That’s the world now.
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
Replying to @noahs.wife
Just us.
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
Eight. Peter counts them too.
Simon Peter@simonpeterIn Noah’s day God waited patiently while the ark was being built, and eight people were brought safely through the water. That water is a picture of baptism, which saves you now. Not washing dirt off your body, but a clear conscience before God, through Jesus rising from the dead.who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
Feed the lower deck. Then the middle deck. Then the upper. Then start again.
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks. And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive. You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
Day 100 on the water. Still water.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
Replying to @japheth
Still water.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
The whole story turns on this line. God remembers Noah, and every animal in the ark with him.
Moses@mosesBut God remembers Noah.But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Wind. A wind is blowing over the water. It’s going down.
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Replying to @noah
The water under the ground stops. The floodgates of the sky close. The rain holds off. Slowly, steadily, the water goes down.
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
We’ve stopped. The ark isn’t moving. We’re resting on something.
On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Replying to @ham
The mountains of Ararat. Seventeenth day of the seventh month. Five months to the day since the rain started.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
First day of the tenth month. The tops of the mountains can be seen.
And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
Opened the window I built into the ark. Sent out a raven.
After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Replying to @noah
Where’s the raven?
and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Trying a dove. To see if the ground’s clear.
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
Replying to @noah
She’s back. Nowhere to put her feet. Water everywhere still. I put my hand out and brought her in.
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
Waited a week. Sent the dove out again.
Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
She’s back. It’s evening and she’s back. Dad. Look what’s in her beak.
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Replying to @shem
An olive leaf. Fresh. Just picked.
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Waited another week. Sent her out again.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Replying to @noah
Still no dove.
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Noah’s six hundred and first year, the first day of the first month.
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Took the covering off the ark. Looked out. The ground is dry.
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Replying to @noah
So... we can get out now?
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Twenty-seventh day of the second month. The earth is completely dry.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
He said it. Out of the ark, all of you. Bring every animal out with you, so they can spread out, have young and fill the earth.
Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives. Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”
We’re out.
So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
Replying to @noahs.wife
Ground. Actual ground. Under my feet.
So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
Everything’s coming out behind us. Birds, cattle, everything that crawls. Kind by kind. Off they go in every direction.
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.” So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
A year and ten days since the door shut.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
First thing on dry ground: an altar to the LORD. Burnt offerings from every clean animal and every clean bird.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
The LORD smells the offering and is pleased. He says to himself: I’m never going to curse the ground because of people again, even though they lean towards evil from childhood. And I’ll never again wipe out every living thing like this.
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
Replying to @moses
As long as the earth lasts: planting and harvest. Cold and heat. Summer and winter. Day and night. They won’t stop.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
God blessed us today, me and the boys. Have children, lots of them, and fill the earth.
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
Replying to @noah
Also, apparently we can eat meat now.
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
He was serious about this part. He’ll hold everyone to account for a human life. If anyone sheds a person’s blood, people will shed his. Because God made people in his own image.
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man: Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Replying to @noah
“In his own image.” Straight back to the first page.
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Then the covenant he promised me before any of this. With us, with our children after us, and with every animal that came out of the ark. A flood will never wipe out all life on the earth again.
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, “Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark. And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Replying to @noah
Every animal. Even the raven.
and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
And the sign of it: his rainbow in the clouds. Whenever clouds come over the earth and the bow shows up, he’ll see it and remember his promise. To us, and to every living thing.
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”
Replying to @noah
Every time the clouds come over now, I’ll be looking for it.
Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
The last word God gives Noah on it: this is the sign of the promise between me and every creature on the earth.
So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
Centuries later, Isaiah hears God swear by this day. As sure as the flood won’t come back, that’s how sure his love is.
Isaiah@isaiahFor a moment he turned away from you. With huge compassion he’ll bring you back. To him this is like Noah’s day: he swore the flood would never cover the earth again, and now he’s sworn he won’t be angry with you. The mountains may move and the hills may shake, but his love for you won’t.“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you. Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
From Noah’s three sons, the whole earth filled up again. Ten generations later, God calls a man named Abram. His great-grandson is Joseph.
Carry onJoseph and his brothersFrom a favourite son’s robe to a ruler in Egypt, told by the family, the traders, the servants and the court who were there. Back to the start