Biblical Story

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="043d4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Biblical Story</div> <div> <IMG SRC="05409090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Purpose"><U>Our Purpose</U></A><IMG SRC="05409090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05409090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biblical Story"><U>Biblical Story</U></A><IMG SRC="05409090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05409090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mesopotamian Story"><U>Mesopotamian Story</U></A><IMG SRC="05409090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Greek Story"><U>Greek Story</U></A><IMG SRC="05a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aztec Story"><U>Aztec Story</U></A><IMG SRC="05a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="06509090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Documentary Hypothesis"><U>Documentary Hypothesis</U></A><IMG SRC="06609090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acknowledgements"><U>Acknowledgements</U></A><IMG SRC="05a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="06a09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A><IMG SRC="06b09090.gif" border=0 width="9" height="9" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#0099FF" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Flood Stories from Around the World</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Flood Stories from Around the World"><U>home</U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Purpose"><U>Our Purpose</U></A>   |   <B>Biblical Story</B>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mesopotamian Story"><U>Mesopotamian Story</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Greek Story"><U>Greek Story</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aztec Story"><U>Aztec Story</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Documentary Hypothesis"><U>Documentary Hypothesis</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acknowledgements"><U>Acknowledgements</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> <B>Biblical Story</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="08751b40.gif" border=0 width="337" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> "For fourty days and fourty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth." Gen. 7:12</div> <bR> <div> B<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" >iblical </FONT>F<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" >lood </FONT>S<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" >tory</FONT></div> <bR> <div> G<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" >enesis 7</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 1 </div> <div> The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, </div> <div> because I have found you righteous in this generation. </div> <div> 2 </div> <div> Take with you seven[1] of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and </div> <div> two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, </div> <div> 3 </div> <div> and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various </div> <div> kinds alive throughout the earth. </div> <div> 4 </div> <div> Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty </div> <div> nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I </div> <div> have made." </div> <div> 5 </div> <div> And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. </div> <div> 6 </div> <div> Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. </div> <div> 7 </div> <div> And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to </div> <div> escape the waters of the flood. </div> <div> 8 </div> <div> Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move </div> <div> along the ground, </div> <div> 9 </div> <div> male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. </div> <div> 10 </div> <div> And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. </div> <div> 11 </div> <div> In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second </div> <div> month--on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the </div> <div> floodgates of the heavens were opened. </div> <div> 12 </div> <div> And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. </div> <div> 13 </div> <div> On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his </div> <div> wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. </div> <div> 14 </div> <div> They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock </div> <div> according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according </div> <div> to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. </div> <div> 15 </div> <div> Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and </div> <div> entered the ark. </div> <div> 16 </div> <div> The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had </div> <div> commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. </div> <div> 17 </div> <div> For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased </div> <div> they lifted the ark high above the earth. </div> <div> 18 </div> <div> The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the </div> <div> surface of the water. </div> <div> 19 </div> <div> They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire </div> <div> heavens were covered. </div> <div> 20 </div> <div> The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty </div> <div> feet.[2] [3] </div> <div> 21 </div> <div> Every living thing that moved on the earth perished--birds, livestock, wild </div> <div> animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. </div> <div> 22 </div> <div> Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. </div> <div> 23 </div> <div> Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and </div> <div> the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped </div> <div> from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. </div> <div> 24 </div> <div> The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0c7baa90.gif" border=0 width="186" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Genesis 8 </div> <div> 1 </div> <div> But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were </div> <div> with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters </div> <div> receded. </div> <div> 2 </div> <div> Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, </div> <div> and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. </div> <div> 3 </div> <div> The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty </div> <div> days the water had gone down,</div> <bR> <div> 4 </div> <div> and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the </div> <div> mountains of Ararat. </div> <div> 5 </div> <div> The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of </div> <div> the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible. </div> <div> 6 </div> <div> After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark </div> <div> 7 </div> <div> and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had </div> <div> dried up from the earth. </div> <div> 8 </div> <div> Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of </div> <div> the ground. </div> <div> 9 </div> <div> But the dove could find no place to set its feet because there was water over </div> <div> all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached </div> <div> out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. </div> <div> 10 </div> <div> He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. </div> <div> 11 </div> <div> When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly </div> <div> plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. </div> <div> 12 </div> <div> He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did </div> <div> not return to him. </div> <div> 13 </div> <div> By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the </div> <div> water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark </div> <div> and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. </div> <div> 14 </div> <div> By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. </div> <div> 15 </div> <div> Then God said to Noah, </div> <div> 16 </div> <div> "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. </div> <div> 17 </div> <div> Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you--the birds, the </div> <div> animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground--so they can </div> <div> multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it." </div> <div> 18 </div> <div> So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. </div> <div> 19 </div> <div> All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the </div> <div> birds--everything that moves on the earth--came out of the ark, one kind after </div> <div> another. </div> <div> 20 </div> <div> Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals </div> <div> and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. </div> <div> 21 </div> <div> The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I </div> <div> curse the ground because of man, even though[1] every inclination of his heart </div> <div> is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, </div> <div> as I have done. </div> <div> 22 </div> <div> "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and </div> <div> winter, day and night will never cease."</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="08528ba0.gif" border=0 width="296" height="186" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Genesis 9</div> <bR> <div> 1 </div> <div> Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase </div> <div> in number and fill the earth. </div> <div> 2 </div> <div> The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all </div> <div> the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and </div> <div> upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. </div> <div> 3 </div> <div> Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the </div> <div> green plants, I now give you everything. </div> <div> 4 </div> <div> "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. </div> <div> 5 </div> <div> And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an </div> <div> accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an </div> <div> accounting for the life of his fellow man. </div> <div> 6 </div> <div> "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the </div> <div> image of God has God made man. </div> <div> 7 </div> <div> As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and </div> <div> increase upon it." </div> <div> 8 </div> <div> Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: </div> <div> 9 </div> <div> "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you </div> <div> 10 </div> <div> and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and </div> <div> all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every </div> <div> living creature on earth. </div> <div> 11 </div> <div> I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the </div> <div> waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." </div> <div> 12 </div> <div> And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you </div> <div> and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: </div> <div> 13 </div> <div> I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant </div> <div> between me and the earth. </div> <div> 14 </div> <div> Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, </div> <div> 15 </div> <div> I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of </div> <div> every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. </div> <div> 16 </div> <div> Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the </div> <div> everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the </div> <div> earth." </div> <div> 17 </div> <div> So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established </div> <div> between me and all life on the earth." </div> <div> 18 </div> <div> The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was </div> <div> the father of Canaan.) </div> <div> 19 </div> <div> These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were </div> <div> scattered over the earth. </div> <div> 20 </div> <div> Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[1] to plant a vineyard. </div> <div> 21 </div> <div> When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his </div> <div> tent. </div> <div> 22 </div> <div> Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two </div> <div> brothers outside. </div> <div> 23 </div> <div> But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then </div> <div> they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were </div> <div> turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. </div> <div> 24 </div> <div> When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to </div> <div> him, </div> <div> 25 </div> <div> he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers." </div> <div> 26 </div> <div> He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave </div> <div> of Shem.[2] </div> <div> 27 </div> <div> May God extend the territory of Japheth[3] ; may Japheth live in the tents of </div> <div> Shem, and may Canaan be his[4] slave." </div> <div> 28 </div> <div> After the flood Noah lived 350 years. </div> <div> 29 </div> <div> Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0ca2c2c0.gif" border=0 width="300" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Noah building the ark</B></div> <div> C<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" >riticism</FONT></div> <bR> <div>         This is the traditional Biblical flood story as recorded in the Book of </div> <div> Genesis.  It bares striking similarities to the flood story of The Epic of </div> <div> Gilgamesh.  Several obvious comparisons include the fact that both Noah in the </div> <div> Biblical account and Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh are commanded to build ships.  </div> <div> Furthermore,  Noah is ordered to take two of every type of animal while </div> <div> Utnapishtim is similarly ordered to take seeds of all kinds of living things.  </div> <div> Both stories trace their landing spots to the same general region of the </div> <div> Middle East as well.</div> <div>         A popular theory regarding these similarities says that the Hebrews </div> <div> “borrowed” from the Babylonians to create their flood myth, but conclusive </div> <div> proof has not been offered.  This could be supported by the fact that initial </div> <div> dating techniques indicated that Gilgamesh was older than the assumed date of </div> <div> the Biblical story’s authorship, but it is possible that the Biblical story </div> <div> existed as an oral tradition long before it was authored, making it much older </div> <div> than Gilgamesh.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" ><U>S</U></FONT><U>ources</U>:<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" >  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> "The Bible Gateway"  <<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://bible.gospelcom.net"><U>http://bible.gospelcom.net</U></A>></div> <div> An easy to use online Bible.  It includes several different versions of </div> <div> the Christian Bible including the New International, New American and King </div> <div> James'. It has a search engine for conveinent passage study.  The Biblical </div> <div> Flood Story was attained using this web site to produce Genesis 6 - 9 in the </div> <div> New American Bible.</div> <bR> <div> "Answering Genesis" <<A HREF="http://www.answeringenesis.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.answeringenesis.org"><U>http://www.answeringenesis.org</U></A>></div> <div> This web site acts as a factual resource to understanding the Book of </div> <div> Genesis.  In relation to the Genesis Flood Account, this site takes on several </div> <div> questions suchs as was the flood really global, is there geographical evidence </div> <div> to support a global flood, and what is the aproximate date of the flood.</div> <bR> <div> "Net Bible Institute" <<A HREF="http://www.nbible.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nbible.org"><U>http://www.nbible.org</U></A>></div> <div> This web site is an online resource dedicated to Biblical study.  It </div> <div> offers information on wide topics in the Christian Bible, including the </div> <div> Biblical Flood Account.  It discusses the true and mythical elements of the </div> <div> Flood Account.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <style>  </style>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>