So far this is totally the hardest day for me, I got to reading kinda late with school starting back up tomorrow and this is the longest section so far, plus this is the first section I've had to stop and read a bunch to be able to make any sense of so here we go.
We start off basically with the good line of people from Seth (sons of God) marrying the bad people from Cain (sons of men) which was making all of mankind bad. God decides that these 900 year old people aren't a good idea so He limits our lives to 120 years. At this point I'm estimating 1,500-2,000 years out of these 10 generations (if anyone has better numbers please tell me) and we are starting to go bad. We then hear about how the wicked offspring of these marriages are considered heroic people. So here God decides that since all the inclination of everyone's thoughts was evil He will wipe out all of man and all the beast of the land and birds of the sky. But He does find favor with one man, Noah.
So then God tells Noah how the flood is going to go down and tells him how to build the ark and to bring your whole family (extended as well) because they are good in this evil generation. Also to bring seven of every kind of clean animal and its mate so 14 and 2 of every unclean animal and its mate so 4. Lots of creatures here people now how do they all fit on one ark. Two different things I'm thinking 1. There aren't as many species back then because they haven't evolved to different climates and stuff and 2. This is God we are talking about.
When Noah is 600 he starts this and as God said all the animals come to him and it takes a week for this to all go down and then on that very day they all get inside the floods start and it rains for forty days and forty nights (look for 40 in the Bible people its important)
These waters come up to 20 feet above the tops of mountains enough so that even the birds left die. So now there is NOTHING living on the earth except for this little colony in the ark.
After the flooding and waiting 150 days for the water to recede its been 5 months and the ark is finally set down on some mountains. After sending doves and ravens out at intervals of 7 days(another important number) the earth is finally dry on the 370th day 10 days over the year they first got in the ark and they can finally come out. Note the 3 and 7 in 370.
Noah makes offerings of some of the clean animals that were aboard the ark (come on there are only so many) and God makes a covenant to never wipe out the earth again even if every inclination of our hearts is evil from childhood. (makes you wonder if He has ever wanted to) and He gives almost the same promise to Noah that he gave to Adam saying you will rule over all the animals and now you may eat them too as long as their lifeblood isn't still in the meat. God also says if you shed the blood of a man than by man shall your blood be shed. (kind of different from the teachings of Jesus but hey this is the OLD testament) God then repeats His previous promise even specifically directing it towards the animals saying that He shall never again flood the earth and He marks the covenant with a rainbow and says when He sees it He will remember. (does He need a rainbow to remember?)
Then we hear a little story about how Noah gets drunk off some wine in his vineyard and his son Ham (father of Canaan) only laughs but his other sons cover his drunkenness and nakedness so Canaan shall now be slave to Japheth and Shem. So apparently ever since Adam and Eve figured it out they've been pretty uncomfortable with it.
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