1. Biblical Flood Story
Noah’s Ark

2. • Noah's Ark is the vessel which, according to the Book of
Genesis (chapters 6-9) and the Quran (surah Hud), was
built by Noah at God's command to save people, himself,
his family, and the world's animals from a worldwide
flood. The Ark features in the traditions of a number of
Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, and others. God's purpose in the flood was not to
destroy people, but to destroy wickedness and sin.

3. • God saw how great
wickedness had become and
decided to wipe mankind from
the face of the earth. However,
one righteous man among all
the people of that time, Noah,
found favor in God's eyes.
With very specific
instructions, God told Noah to
build an ark for him and his
family in preparation for a
catastrophic flood that would
destroy every living thing on
earth. ark was exactly six
times longer than it was wide.

4. • God also instructed Noah
to bring into the ark two
of all living creatures,
male and female, God
instructed Noah to take
seven of every kind of
clean animal, and two of
every kind of unclean
animal. Bible scholars
have calculated that
approximately 45,000
animals might have fit on
the ark.
• In order to protect Noah and his family, God placed lions
and other ferocious animals to guard them from the wicked
who tried to stop them from entering the Ark. According to
one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the
animals to the Ark, together with their food.

5. • As there had been no need to distinguish between clean
and unclean animals before this time, the clean animals
made themselves known by kneeling before Noah as they
entered the Ark.
• Along with every kind of food to be stored as food for the
animals and his family while on the ark. Noah obeyed
everything God commanded him to do.

6. • Noah was engaged both day and night in feeding and caring
for the animals, and did not sleep for the entire year aboard
the Ark. The animals were the best of their species, and so
behaved with utmost goodness. Only the raven created
problems, refusing to go out of the Ark when Noah sent it forth
and accusing the patriarch of wishing to destroy its race, but
as the commentators pointed out, God wished to save the
raven, for its descendants were destined to feed the prophet
Elijah.

7. • The flood begins, and the waters prevail until all the
high mountains are covered fifteen cubits deep, and
all the people and animals and creeping things and
birds of the heavens are blotted out from the earth,
and only Noah and those with him in the Ark
remain.

8. • Then "God remembered Noah," and causes his wind to
blow, and the fountains of the deep and the windows
of the heavens are closed, and the rain is restrained,
and the waters abate, and in the seventh month the
Ark rests on the mountains of Ararat.

9. • In the tenth month the tops of the mountains are seen,
and Noah sends out a raven and a dove to see if the
waters have subsided; the raven flies "to and fro" and the
dove returns with a fresh olive leaf in her beak. Noah
waits seven days more and sends out the dove again, and
this time it does not return.

10. • Finally after an entire year, God invited Noah to come out of
the ark. Immediately, he built an altar and worshiped the Lord
with burnt offerings from some of the clean animals. God was
pleased with the offerings and promised never again to destroy
all the living creatures as he had just done. Later God
established a covenant with Noah: "Never again will there be a
flood to destroy the earth." As a sign of this everlasting
covenant God set a rainbow in the clouds.

11. Noah’s Ark in Islam
• Noah (Nuh) is one of the five
principal prophets of Islam. It is
mentioned in the Qur'an, with
the fullest account in surah
Hud (11:27–51).
• As a prophet, Noah preached to
his people, but with little
success; only "a few"[11:40] of
them converted (traditionally
thought to be seventy).
• Noah prayed for deliverance,
and God told him to build a
ship in preparation for the flood.
• A son (named either 'Kan'an' or
'Yam' depending on the source)
was among those drowned,
despite Noah pleading with him
to leave the disbelievers and join
him (Surah Hud, 42-43).

12. Aytekin Aliyeva