| Since we were little children, if we were brought up | | | | long. It is said that after forty days and forty nights |
| in a Christian home, we have heard about Noah, his | | | | of rainfall, it finally came to a stop. Noah opened the |
| family, the animals, and of course, the great ark that | | | | window, but all he could see surrounding them on all |
| he and his sons built from gopher wood. It is said | | | | sides was water. There was no land anywhere to be |
| that the measurements were sent to him directly | | | | seen. Not even a mountain top peeked through the |
| from God. It took Noah and his sons many years to | | | | water. |
| complete the building of the ark and to gather the | | | | After a while, Noah released a dove into the air, but |
| animals and supplies that they needed to survive the | | | | it eventually came back because there was no where |
| great flood that God told Noah was coming. | | | | for it to rest except on the ark. Later, Noah released |
| The story goes that as Noah and his offspring built | | | | another dove and it did not come back because it |
| the ark, the people who lived around them laughed | | | | had apparently found a dry place to make a nest. |
| and made fun of them as they constructed this huge | | | | This was wonderful news for Noah and his family. |
| vessel. It did not rain during that time and they all | | | | They believed now that their days left inside the ark |
| thought that the prospect of water falling from the | | | | were numbered. |
| sky was ridiculous. In the end they were supposedly | | | | So the end of the story goes that the ark finally |
| proven wrong when the rains did begin and the earth | | | | came to rest on a mountainside and the family was |
| began to flood. The only safe place to be found was | | | | able to leave the ark. The animals they had captured |
| inside the ark and after the door was closed no one | | | | were released back into the wilds of the world to |
| could get inside. | | | | repopulate themselves. Noah and his family somehow |
| While Noah, his family, their supplies, and all of the | | | | did the same. This was achieved because the sons |
| creatures both large and small waited patiently for | | | | of Noah had brought wives with them into the ark |
| the rain to stop, they became increasingly afraid that | | | | and the rest we suppose is history. |
| they might be trapped inside for who knew how | | | | |