The flood fell from the sky and lasted for 40 days and nights.
Noah's Ark is a fascinating legend in Genesis. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden for stealing forbidden fruit. From then on, Cain killed his younger brother, which opened the curtain for human beings to kill each other. The world is full of violence, hatred and jealousy, and only Noah is an upright man. God saw all kinds of human sins and was furious. He decided to destroy the ruined world with floods, leaving only limited creatures for Noah.
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.
This is the origin of Noah's Ark story. Although it is a legend, many things recorded in the Bible have been proved to be true. For example, in a war, an officer successfully found a secret passage in the mountains according to the records in the Bible, and suddenly appeared in front of the enemy through this path and won a great victory. If it can be proved that "Noah's Ark" is also true, then this discovery will definitely cause a sensation all over the world. Therefore, for many years, biblical archaeologists in many countries hope to uncover this eternal mystery.