Among these sinners, only Noah was favored by God. God thinks he is an upright man and abides by his duties; His three sons did not go astray under the strict education of their father. Noah also often warned people around him to stop doing evil and get rid of the sinful life. But people don't take his words seriously, and continue to do things their own way, blindly doing evil and having fun.
God chose Noah's family: Noah and his wife, three sons and their daughter-in-law, and preserved them as the seeds of a new generation of mankind. God told them that after seven days, they would carry out great destruction, and asked them to build an ark with gopher wood, room by room, and to coat it with rosin inside and outside. The ark should be 300 hours long, 50 hours wide and 30 hours high. There should be a transparent window above the cabinet and a door next to it. The ark should be divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. They did it at once.
When God saw that the ark had been built, he said, "Look, I am going to flood the earth and destroy the whole world, and every living thing on the earth will die. I will make a Covenant with you, and you, your wife, son and daughter-in-law will all enter the ark. All clean livestock, you should take seven males and seven females; For unclean animals, you should take a male and a female; Birds in the air should also bring seven males and seven females. These can be planted and propagated on the ground in the future. "
On February 17, Noah's 600th birthday, all the springs in the ocean burst and huge water columns were ejected from the ground. All the windows in the sky were open, and it rained day and night for 40 days. The water has nowhere to flow, and it rises quickly, which is higher than the highest mountain 15 hour. All the animals that breathe with their lungs on land are dead, but only the people in the ark and the seeds of animals are safe and sound. The ark carries the high hopes of God and floats on the endless Wang Yang.
God asked Noah to build an ark out of gopher wood and taught Noah the specifications and structure of the ship. After that, Noah urged the world to repent while rushing to build the ark. It took Noah 120 years to build a huge ark. He listened to God and moved a family of eight, and all kinds of birds and animals entered the ark in pairs in an orderly way. Seven days later, the flood fell from the sky and lasted for 40 days and nights. All people, animals and plants fell into a bottomless disaster. Except for the Noah family, the descendants of Adam and Eve were swallowed up by the flood, and even the highest mountain in the world was 7 meters below the water surface.
God looked after Noah and the birds and animals in the ark, so he ordered the rain to stop, and the wind made waves, and the wind blew up the water, and the water gradually receded. Noah's ark docked at the edge of Mount Ararat. A few days later, Noah opened the window of the ark and released a crow to listen for news, but the crow never came back. Noah released another pigeon to see if the water on the ground had receded. Because there was water everywhere, the pigeons couldn't find a place to stay and flew back to the ark. Seven days later, Noah released the pigeon again. At dusk, Ye Fei came back with an olive in her mouth, apparently pecked from a tree. Noah judged from this that the water on the ground had receded. Later generations used pigeons and olive branches to symbolize peace.