At that time, it was still the time to believe in God, so after Noah told the family what God had said, everyone got busy. Noah had three sons, and people lived for hundreds of years. For example, Noah is almost 600 years old now and has many grandchildren, so everyone is divided into three ways, building an ark all the way, catching birds, animals, insects and fish all the way, and preparing food. Time is very short, only seven days, and mistakes are inevitable. For example, God told them to bring a man and a woman of each species into the ark. It's a pity that some species are similar in appearance, and it's easy to distinguish between males and females, such as cattle. But people at that time didn't learn biology, and really didn't know how to distinguish them, so they just caught two. As for whether they are a man and a woman or both, it depends on luck. Some species are difficult to catch and too big to give up and become extinct. Future generations can only see fossils.
Besides catching animals, shipbuilding is also a big project. It is said that there were more than 10 thousand kinds at that time, which needed a lot of food. How big is this ship? Besides, Noah didn't graduate from shipbuilding, did he? However, in the eyes of God, anything is possible. Noah built the ark in seven days. I don't know the size. In short, the whole ship is divided into three floors, with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. At present, it is also a huge ship. Brother Miao seriously doubts that God sent some angels down to help the whole shipbuilding process, otherwise it would be impossible to build such a big ship in seven days.
After the ship was built, Noah put all kinds of birds, animals, insects and fish into the ark, and his family went in, so he closed the door of the ark. God rained heavily on the earth, and there has never been such a heavy rain since the beginning of heaven and earth. It rained heavily for forty days and nights, and even the demigods and giants left on the ground could not resist the heavy rain and were all drowned. Although birds can fly, they have nowhere to shelter from the rain. They were hit by heavy rain and instantly flooded. The fish were also drowned by the flood.
Wait, what's more, fish will be drowned by water? Sorry, the fish are obviously much better, and most of them have survived the flood, so there are many more kinds of marine life now than on land. Therefore, there are obvious loopholes in God's plan to destroy the world with the flood, and there are fish that slip through the net. Why not use fire and asteroids to destroy the world? Brother Miao thought for a long time and finally figured it out. After water falls from the sky, it can be recycled to the underground and the ocean, and then evaporated to the sky, which is very environmentally friendly. And the fire, smoke rolling, air pollution is very serious; The asteroid is going to make a big hole in the ground, which is ugly. After all, God worked hard to create the earth, and he just wanted to wash it away, something as dirty as human beings, not the whole destruction.
Ok, let's talk about the flood. The rain stopped after forty days and nights. At this time, there was water everywhere on the ground, and the water overflowed the top of the mountain for several meters, which was so deep. Noah opened the window and looked. He was so worried that he couldn't get out at all, so he had to wait in the ark for the water to recede. In fact, the flood remained on the ground until more than a year later, which meant that Noah stayed in the ark for more than a year. Believe it or not, I do. Think about it. I stayed in the ark for more than a year, and it was full of excrement from various animals and smelled of rotten food. That's uncomfortable. I don't know how the Noah family put up with it.
Noah's family lives in the zoo. Oh, no, after staying in the ark for more than a year, God suddenly remembered that there was such a family in the ark, so God let the wind blow all over the earth, the flood began to recede, and the land slowly dried up. Noah's Ark also slowly stopped and ran aground on Mount Ararat in Turkey. Noah didn't know if the whole land was dry, so he let a crow out. It was not completely dry, but the crow was a road idiot. He flew around without a dry place to stay, and he didn't remember the way back to the ark. He kept flying and flying, and when he was tired, he slept in the wind until the ground was completely dry.
Noah saw that the crow didn't come back, and he didn't know what happened, so he let a pigeon out again. Pigeons fly around and have nowhere to stay, so they fly back to the ark. After a while, the pigeon was released and returned after a while, but this time it was holding an olive branch in its mouth, which was picked from the tree with its mouth, so Noah knew that the water level was only the height of the tree now and it would soon be out of the ark, so the pigeon holding an olive branch was regarded as a symbol of peace and hope. Finally, after a while, the pigeon was released and didn't fly back. Noah knew that the whole land was dry, so the family took the animals out of the ark together.
After leaving the ark, Noah's family stood on the ground. The ground is clean and there are no bodies. After soaking for more than a year, everything melted. When the sun came out, something similar to an arch bridge appeared in the sky, which was composed of several colors. At this moment, a voice came from the sky and said, "This is a rainbow, an agreement between me and mankind, which indicates that the flood will stop. After the rain, rainbows will appear. As soon as I saw the rainbow, I remembered that I had killed the world with a flood. Therefore, there will be no more devastating floods in the future. This is my agreement with mankind. "
So Noah's family worshipped God and thanked God for his grace in life. Among Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, Canaan and Shem, one named Abraham eventually became the ancestor of Israel.