Season 1 Episode 01: The Seafood Survived

Genesis Chapter 6-8

God saves Noah

This is the report about Noah and his family.

Noah was a good man. He was the only person at that time who lived in a completely right way. He stayed near to God in his life. Noah became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

God saw that everything on the earth had become spoiled. Everywhere, people were attacking each other. God saw how much the earth had become spoiled. Everyone was doing bad things. God said to Noah, ‘I am going to destroy everyone. That is what I have decided to do. Everywhere on the earth, people are attacking each other. Now I will destroy the people and also the earth. So, make a boat for yourself. Use wood from cypress trees to make it. The boat must have rooms in it. Cover the inside and the outside of the boat with tar.

This is how you will build the boat: The boat must be 150 metres long, 25 metres wide and 15 metres high.

Make a roof for the boat. Leave a space 45 centimetres high all round under the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. Inside the boat, make 3 floors above each other.

I am going to cover the earth with deep water. I will destroy all living things, wherever they live. Everything that breathes will die. But I will make a covenant with you, Noah. You will go into the boat. You will take your wife with you, and also your 3 sons and their wives. You must also take 2 of every different kind of animal into the boat. One will be male and the other will be female. Then they will stay alive with you. Bring 2 of every different kind of bird, 2 of every different animal and 2 of every different living thing that moves along the ground. All these will come to you. You will take care of them so that they will stay alive. You must also take every different kind of food. That will be food for you and food for the animals.’

Noah obeyed God. He did everything that God had told him to do.

Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the boat. Take your wife and family with you. I can see that you alone do what is right, among all the people on the earth.

Take seven of every different kind of clean animal. Take a male and a female together. Take two of every different kind of unclean animal. Take a male and a female together. Take seven of every kind of bird. Take males and females. Do this so that they will give birth to young ones. Then each different kind of animal and bird will continue to live on the earth.

In seven days, I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. In that way, I will destroy every living thing that I have made on the earth.’

Noah did everything that God told him to do.

Noah was 600 years old when the deep water covered the earth. Noah and his wife went into the boat. His sons and their wives also went in. They all went into the boat to be safe from the deep water. Pairs of clean animals and unclean animals came to Noah in the boat. Also, pairs of birds and pairs of all the living things that move across the ground came to him. Each pair was one male and one female. They all came to Noah in the boat. Everything happened as God had said to Noah. After seven days had passed, God sent the deep water to cover the earth.

When Noah was 600 years old, on the 17th day of the second month, streams of water came up everywhere from below the earth. Also, the water in the heavens poured down on the earth. Rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

On the day that the rains began, Noah and his wife went into the boat. Noah's three sons (Shem, Ham and Japheth) and their three wives also went in. With them was every different kind of wild animal and every different kind of farm animal. They also had with them every kind of living thing that moves along the ground, and every different kind of bird and other flying things. Pairs of every kind of animal that lived came to Noah and went into the boat. Each pair was one male and one female. This happened in the way that God had told Noah. When they were all in the boat, the Lord shut the door.

For 40 days, the water on the earth became deeper. The water lifted the boat high above the ground.

The water became even deeper and completely covered the earth. The boat went safely on top of the water. More water came until it covered all the high mountains on the earth. The water still became deeper so that it was more than 6 metres higher than the tops of the mountains.

As a result, everything that had lived on the earth now died. The birds, the livestock and the wild animals died. Every living thing that moved across the ground died, and so did all the people. Everything that had lived on the dry land died. Nothing could breathe any more. God destroyed everything that lived on the earth. He destroyed people, animals, living things that move across the ground, and birds. God removed them from the earth. Only Noah and his family, together with the animals that were in the boat, stayed alive.

The deep water covered the earth for 150 days.

Then God thought of Noah, and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the boat. He caused a wind to blow over the earth. As a result, the water began to go down. Streams of water stopped coming up from below the earth. Rain stopped coming down from the sky. The deep water continued to go down for 150 days. On the 17th day of the seventh month, the boat stopped on the ground. It was sitting on the top of Ararat mountains. The water continued to go down until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared above the water.

After 40 more days, Noah opened a window in the boat. He sent a raven to fly away. The raven flew away from the boat and then it returned. It continued to do this until the earth was dry.

Then Noah sent out a dove. He wanted to see if the water had gone away from the top of the ground. But the dove could not find anywhere to stand. Water still covered all of the ground. So it returned to Noah in the boat. Noah put out his hand and took the dove back into the boat. He waited for seven days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again. The dove returned to Noah in the evening. It carried a fresh leaf from an olive tree in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the water had gone down. He waited for 7 more days. Then he sent the dove out again. This time, it did not return to Noah.

Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the first month, the water that had covered the earth was now gone. The ground had become dry. Noah made a hole in the roof of the boat and he looked round. He saw that the top of the ground was dry. By the 27th day of the second month, the earth had become completely dry.

God said to Noah, ‘Come out of the boat. Bring your wife, your sons and their wives with you. Bring every different kind of living animal out of the boat. Bring out the birds, the animals, and the living things that move across the ground. Now they may give birth to young ones again. They can grow in number all over the earth.’

Noah went out of the boat, together with his wife, his sons and their wives. All the living animals also went out of the boat. The birds and the living things that move across the ground all went out. Every different kind of animal came out of the boat, each of them in its own group.

God makes a promise to Noah

Then Noah built an altar to make sacrifices to the Lord. He took one from each kind of clean animal and clean bird. He offered them to the Lord as sacrifices which he burned on the altar.

The Lord smelled the sacrifice and it made him happy. The Lord said to himself, ‘I will never curse the ground again because of the bad things that people do. From the time that they are children, they want to do bad things. But still, I will never destroy again everything that breathes, as I have done this time.

As long as the earth continues to be here,

the time for people to plant seeds will come each year.

The time for harvest will come each year.

Times of cold and heat will always come.

Summer and winter will always come.

Day and night will never stop.’