15 Unique Biblical Facts about Noah, with verse and Description
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15 Unique Biblical Facts about Noah
- Noah was the tenth generation descended from Adam (Genesis 5:29).
- Noah was five hundred years old when he built the ark (Genesis 5:32).
- Noah was instructed by God to build an ark to save himself, his family, and two of each kind of animal from the coming flood (Genesis 6:13-22).
- Noah was chosen by God because he was an “righteous man, blameless in his generation” (Genesis 6:9).
- Noah prepared for the flood for a total of 120 years (Genesis 6:3).
- Noah was commanded to take seven pairs of all clean animals, and one pair of all unclean animals, into the ark (Genesis 7:2-3).
- The flood lasted forty days and forty nights (Genesis 7:12).
- Noah sent out a raven and a dove to scout the flood waters (Genesis 8:7-8).
- The dove returned with an olive leaf in its beak, signaling that the flood waters were receding (Genesis 8:11).
- Noah offered a sacrifice to God after leaving the ark (Genesis 8:20).
- God made a covenant with Noah after the flood to never again destroy the world with a flood (Genesis 9:8-17).
- Noah planted a vineyard and became drunk, which resulted in him being cursed by his son Ham (Genesis 9:20-27).
- Noah lived for 350 years after the flood (Genesis 9:28).
- Noah died at the age of 950 (Genesis 9:29).
- Noah is remembered in Jewish tradition as the father of mankind and the bringer of civilization (Genesis 9:32).
