CHOOSE LIFE

And the Lord told Noah, “Now go onto the ark and bring your family, because I see that you are a good man from this generation. Take seven pairs of every clean beast, and two pairs of every unclean. Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird, so that they all will be able to return to the Earth. In seven days I will make it rain for forty days and forty nights, and eliminate everything I have created from the face of the Earth.” Noah did everything God told him. Noah was six hundred years old when God sent the flood to the Earth. Noah went into the ark, he took his sons, his wife, and their wives into the ark with him because the flood was coming. All kinds of wild animals came; clean and unclean, all types of birds, and everything that creeps. There may have even been beasts that we believe are mythical in the ark also. They all came to Noah; male and female, two by two; just like God said. And it so happened, that after the seven days that God allowed for all his creations to pair up and make it to the ark; he sent the great flood to the Earth. Noah was six hundred years, two months, and seventeen days old when every geyser erupted, and the heavens opened up. A great rain fell forty days and forty nights upon the Earth. And the day came that Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, and all of their wives were in the ark. Every kind of wild beast, every kind of livestock, every thing that creeps, every kind of bird, and any other thing with wings came. Everything with the breath of life in it came to Noah with their partners, and entered the ark. And they all went in; male and female, just as God had said, and he shut them in. For forty days the Earth was flooded, and the rising waters lifted the ark high off of the ground. And as the water rose, so did the ark, and it floated on the face of the water. The water was so high it covered the highest mountains of the Earth. The water was more than fifteen cubits above the highest mountains of the Earth. That is more than twenty feet. All moving flesh died; every bird, every cattle, every wild beast, every thing that creeps, and every man. If it was on dry land, and had the breath of life in its nostrils, it died. Everything that lived on ground was eliminated. Every man, every cattle, every thing that creeps, and every bird was destroyed. Noah, and all those in his ark, were all that remained. The Earth stayed flooded for one hundred and fifty days.